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Catania, Italy — black metal and death metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2013, they deal in raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Scorching Black Metal (early); Melodic Post-Black Metal / Shoegaze (mid); Black / Death / Doom Metal (later) from Keller.
Krisiun is a Brazilian death metal band formed in 1990 by brothers Alex Camargo, Moyses Kolesne, and Max Kolesne, three siblings from the south of Brazil who have maintained the same lineup for their entire career. After a series of self-released demos and an EP in the early 1990s, the band broke internationally with Black Force Domain (1995) and Apocalyptic Revelation (1998) before signing to Century Media for a run of albums defined by relentless blast beats and technically precise brutality. They remain one of Latin America's most enduring and prolific death metal acts, with Mortem Solis arriving in 2022.
Parisian death/thrash metal band formed in 2008, fusing the precision of death metal with the velocity and riff-driven attack of thrash. Their sound sits at the aggressive intersection of both genres within France's active extreme metal community.
Straddling the line between black metal and death metal, this Russian actfrom Koryazhma fuses HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2008, and their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Melodic death/power/folk metal band from Salamanca, active since 2007 and blending three distinct styles across nearly two decades. Their multi-genre approach weaves folk melodies and power metal grandeur into a melodic death metal framework.
Melodic death metal band from Warsaw, formed in 2020 and channeling the Gothenburg-style melodic death metal tradition through a Polish lens. Their sound pairs aggressive vocals with sweeping melodic guitar leads.
The Russian city of Orenburg 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.
Kromorth is a death metal band from Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, founded around 1999–2000 by guitarist and vocalist Rodrigo Auad. After a hiatus from 2007 to 2012, the band stabilized with a lineup including Fabio Agassi (guitar), Lincoln Lima (bass), and Elton Bernardino (drums), releasing the full-length debut "Geodesic Beast" in November 2018 through Iron Blood & Death Corporation.
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