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Serbian melodic death/black metal band from Pristina, Kosovo, merging melodic hooks with blackened intensity since 2016. Named after the Genesis song, their sound bridges melodic sophistication with extreme metal aggression.
Italian thrash/death metal band from Catanzaro in Calabria, merging thrash speed with death metal brutality since 2018. Their name captures the hateful, scorched-earth character of their extreme metal.
Land of Tears is an old-school death metal band from Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with roots tracing back to 2000. Drawing on influences such as Bolt Thrower, Entombed, and Dismember, the band released their debut album "The Ancient Ages of Mankind" in 2014, which led to a European tour through Germany, Belgium, Holland, and Poland. The band returned in 2022 with a reformed lineup after a break in activity beginning in 2018.
Dayton, Ohio's Landfilth landed in 2025 with a death metal and hardcore hybrid that sounds as grim as their industrial Rust Belt home. Their name says it plainly: this is ugly music delivered with purpose.
Czech deathcore outfit from Velka nad Velickou, delivering crushing breakdowns and aggressive extremity since 2022. Their sound channels the genre's signature low-tuned heaviness and rhythmic brutality.
Spanish brutal death metal/grindcore act from El Ejido, delivering punishing extremity since 2014. Their sound merges brutal death metal's low-end savagery with grindcore's frantic speed.
Larvae are a death metal band from Concepción, Chile, operating within the long-established extreme metal scene of the Biobío region. The band released the full-length Entitled to Death in April 2023, documented on the Encyclopaedia Metallum under band ID 3540466302. They play straightforward death metal in the old-school tradition.
San Antonio's LaSanche have been forging black/death metal in the San Antonio underground since 2017, fusing the genre's most aggressive elements into something that reflects Texas' fierce and uncompromising spirit. They're one of the Alamo City's most notable extreme metal exports.
Norwegian grindcore/death metal band from Hommelvik, delivering savage brevity since 2007. Their nearly two decades of grinding extremity mark them as veterans of the Norwegian deathgrind scene.
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