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Wielding death metal and grindcore as their weapon, this Romanian outfit has been refining their craft since 2023. Their sound hinges on weaponized brevity delivering maximum aggression in minimum time, delivered with brute-force conviction.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels death metal and thrash metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2021, based in Reggio Emilia, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Black/thrash/death metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2017 and merging three extreme metal subgenres into a blistering assault. Their crossfire name captures the multi-directional aggression of their genre-fusing approach.
Groove/death metal band from Slupsk on the Baltic coast, active since 2017 and merging groove metal's rhythmic crunch with death metal's guttural intensity. Their sound bridges both genres with aggressive precision.
Krow is a thrash/death metal band from Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The band released the debut full-length "Before the Ashes" in 2009 and followed it with "Traces of the Trade" in 2012, the latter produced by American engineer Alan Douches and notable for its thematic focus on Brazilian slavery. The album draws on late-1980s and early-1990s death metal roots with a thrash punch.
Moscow doom/death metal act formed in 2019, delivering bilingual Russian-English compositions with titles like Ordeal/Тяжёлые шаги and Breath of Winter/Дыхание зимы. Their approach blends doom metal's crushing weight with death metal's guttural intensity across introspective, winter-themed material.
Devotees of death metal, this Slovak outfit from Stupava has been refining their craft since 2020. Their sound hinges on Florida-school brutality with modern precision, delivered with dogged persistence.
Lausanne sludge metal and death'n'roll veterans active since 2002, evolving from their stoner rock roots into more complex, powerful metalesque songwriting across five studio albums. Fans praise their technical skill, awesome riffing, and unexpectedly humorous lyrics.
Straddling the line between death metal and melodic death metal, this Italian actfrom Pordenone fuses technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2008, and their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
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