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The Bestiary (2025)
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Drawing from Leżajsk/Rzeszów's musical fabric, this Polish act forges Death Metal, Experimental, and Technical Death Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Active in Saint Petersburg since 2025, this Russian act forges Death Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Black/death metal band from Hamburg, formed in 2016 and delivering aggressive, war-themed extreme metal. Their name translates to "chain dog," reflecting the ferocious, attack-trained intensity of their sound.
Black/death/thrash metal band from Suhl in Thuringia, formed in 2024 and merging three extreme metal styles into a volatile blend. Their name means "chain breaker," fitting their boundary-smashing approach to heavy music.
The Turkish city of İzmir serves as headquarters for this death metal and grindcore operation, whose arsenal includes weaponized brevity delivering maximum aggression in minimum time. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Brutal death metal/grindcore band from Cordoba in Andalusia, active since 2000 and delivering a quarter-century of extreme sonic violence. Their armored-skin name reflects the impenetrable, punishing nature of their quarter-century catalog.
New York's Kevorkian have been at the intersection of death and groove metal since 2013, fusing the genre's extremity with the mid-paced, headbanging punch that groove metal demands.
Also hailing from New York, Kevorkianesque take the brutal death metal template and push it to its logical extremes — relentless, pulverizing, and technically accomplished in the service of maximum punishment since 2016.
Drone/doom/black/death metal project from Dusseldorf, formed in 2020 and pushing extreme metal into its most crushing, hypnotic territory. Their multi-genre approach spans the heaviest and most experimental reaches of metal.
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