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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Melodic death/groove metal band from the Pohjois-Savo region of Finland, formed in 2017 and delivering hook-laden aggression from the Finnish heartland. Their Finnish name adds local identity to their Scandinavian melodeath approach.
Springfield, Missouri's Kaffeine have been a persistent fixture in the Midwest death metal underground since 1999, maintaining their output across decades of lineup shifts and scene changes. Their durability alone marks them as one of the region's more committed acts.
Proof that the underground never sleeps, this death metal and grindcore act from Kristinehamn traffics in microsecond-length blasts of noise and fury. Since 2011, they've built a catalog that reflects the Gothenburg school's homeland.
Melodic death metal/hardcore band from Kajaani in northeastern Finland, active since 2012 and delivering over a decade of aggressive, melodically driven compositions. Their Finnish name meaning "longing" or "yearning" adds emotional depth to their hardcore-tinged melodeath.
Slam/brutal death metal and deathcore act from Kiel on Germany's Baltic coast, formed in 2024 and delivering punishing slam breakdowns and guttural brutality. Their sound mines the heaviest depths of modern extreme metal.
Black/death metal act from Portsmouth, England, formed in 2016 and forging a sound at the violent intersection of black metal's atmospheric menace and death metal's guttural brutality. Their approach channels the darkest currents of both genres into a unified assault.
Melodic death metal and metalcore act from Lausanne, Switzerland, formed in 2013 and delivering hook-laden aggression with clean and harsh vocal interplay. Their approach balances melodic accessibility with the intensity of modern extreme metal.
Kaiten is a thrash/death metal band from Valinhos, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2010. The band released the album Crash and Burn, operating as an unsigned independent act within the São Paulo underground metal scene.
Firmly rooted in death metal, this Italian actfrom Rome delivers technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality without compromise. They've been at it since 2023, and their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
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