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The Blind Leading The Blind (2019)
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Blood Eagle (2017)
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Architects Of A New Weave (Deluxe Album) (2026)
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Prague-based technical death metal act formed in 2014, evolving from pure tech-death into technical deathcore and djent territory. Their releases showcase precise, angular riffing and progressive structures that push extreme metal's technical boundaries.
Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from San Antonio.
Two decades deep in the Broken Arrow underground, Litany have quietly refined a brand of Oklahoma death metal that rewards patience with relentless, purposeful brutality.
German death metal/deathcore act from Ludwigsburg, delivering crushing extremity since 2021. Their hybrid approach combines death metal's technical brutality with deathcore's punishing breakdowns and rhythmic aggression.
Devastating Technical / Brutal Death Metal from Texas (early); Albuquerque, New Mexico (later).
British melodic death/thrash metal band from Brighton, blending harmonic sophistication with aggressive precision since 2011. Their approach layers melodic guitar work over a foundation of thrash and death metal intensity.
French melodic death metal band from Laon, blending harmonic sophistication with aggressive intensity since 2015. Their name, meaning 'dispute' or 'litigation,' signals the confrontational energy beneath their melodic surface.
Litosth is a melodic black/death metal band from Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2016, featuring members who have also played in prominent Latin American black metal acts including Patria, Mysteriis, Swords at Hymns, and Dark Celebration. The band released their second full-length album "Farther From the Sun" in 2022, recorded at Dead Marshall Records, blending the melancholy of black metal with atmospheric death metal. Their third full-length "Cesariana" followed in February 2024 through Personal Records.
Danish death metal band from Koge, emerging in 2019 with raw, uncompromising brutality. Their sound channels death metal's foundational heaviness through a stripped-down, aggressive approach.
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