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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Spanish gothic/melodic death metal band from Reus, Catalonia, balancing power and aggression with melodic passages since the late 1990s. Their album 'System Failure' features groove metal and metalcore influences across eleven tracks of energetic, heavy compositions.
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.
Norman, Oklahoma's Landfill arrive from the university town's underground with a punishing mix of death metal, grindcore, and hardcore that wastes nothing and spares no one. Active since 2016, they pile genre on genre until something gives.
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.
Lapidation were a death metal band from Castro, Chiloé, Chile, one of relatively few extreme metal acts to emerge from the island of Chiloé in the Los Lagos region. The band was released on Premature Cremations Productions and put out the EP Condemned to Eternal Darkness in January 2015. Lyrical themes centered on death, suffering, and torture.
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