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Ich hatt einen Kameraden (2016)
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Necromanteum (2023)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Thrash/death metal band from Munster in Westphalia, active since 2015 and delivering fast, riff-driven aggression from one of northwestern Germany's largest cities. Their decade of output channels the region's extreme metal energy.
Part of Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape, this act channels black metal and death metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2016, based in Kaliningrad, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
On the warpath since 2021, this Trondheim Death Metal, Progressive Metal, and Thrash Metal outfit delivers polyrhythmic complexity balanced with emotive melodic passages. Their place within the frozen north that birthed an entire genre speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Death metal band from Tartu, Estonia's second-largest city, formed in 2020 and channeling underground brutality from the university town. Their coffin-themed name matches the sepulchral darkness of their death metal.
Kansas City, Missouri death metal act Kohnerah has been building a case for Midwest brutality since forming in 2023. Young but purposeful, they channel the genre's classic blunt-force ethos through a scene that punches well above its national profile.
When Kohorta emerged in 2012 from Dobre Miasto, they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal and deathcore — all punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Progressive death metal band from Dillenburg in Hesse, formed in 2016 and exploring intricate, technically demanding compositions. Their approach blends death metal's heaviness with progressive music's structural ambition.
Death/doom metal band with folk influences from Saint Petersburg, Russia formed in 2023. Their sound merges death/doom's crushing weight with folk elements, drawing on Russian folk traditions.
Pushing the boundaries of death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore, this Polish outfit from Warsaw has been refining their craft since 2016. Their sound hinges on Florida-school brutality with modern precision, delivered with unshakable resolve.
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