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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Extreme Power Metal (2019)
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rosemary (2023)
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Stockholm, Sweden — death metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2022, they deal in percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Firmly rooted in death metal, this Slovak actfrom Košice delivers technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality without compromise. They've been at it since 2014, and their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Estonian death metal band from Tallinn, formed in 2024 and representing the newest wave of extreme metal from the Baltic state. Their uncompromising sound channels death metal's visceral power.
The name is absurdist; the music is not — Cincinnati's Killer Refrigerator play death-thrash that hits hard and doesn't waste time, formed in 2014 with the focus of a band that knows exactly what it wants to deliver.
Cleveland's Killer Whale Theory arrived in 2009 at the heavy end of deathcore, building songs with the structural weight and low-end density that the genre demands. A decade-plus into existence, they remain a fixture in Ohio's extreme underground.
Underground to the core, this black metal, death metal, and progressive metal act from Budapest traffics in technical virtuosity in service of expansive, cinematic narratives. The results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
The Romanian city of Brașov serves as headquarters for this death metal and thrash metal operation, whose arsenal includes suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
A product of Ireland's Celtic-tinged metal scene, this Dublin-based death metal and thrash metal act channels punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Active since 2011, primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
New Orleans' Killgore came out of the gate swinging in 2022, mixing death metal's low-end crush with grindcore's sub-two-minute brutality in a city that knows how to make punishment feel celebratory.
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