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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.
Ukrainian black/death metal band from Vyshhorod near Kyiv, merging blackened fury with death metal brutality since 2010. Their militant name channels the decisive, final-stand character of their extreme metal.
Spanish melodic death metal band from the Badalona/Barcelona area, active since 2018 and channeling Scandinavian melodeath through a Catalan lens. Their approach blends harmonic guitar work with aggressive extremity.
Belgian melodic death/thrash metal act from Diepenbeek, active since 2005 under various names before settling as Last Funeral in 2004. Their sound merges melodic sensibility with thrash aggression across releases like 'Incipient Grim.'
Albuquerque's Last House on the Left named themselves after horror royalty and deliver deathcore with appropriately cinematic brutality since 2006. They've long been one of New Mexico's defining extreme metal acts, operating in the desert far from any major scene.
Queens-bred and uncompromising, Last Legion fuses black metal's icy hostility with death metal's brutality into a sound that feels like the borough's concrete compressed into sound.
German death metal act from Weyhe near Bremen, debuting with a five-track self-titled demo in 2014. Their songs including 'Bloodbath' and 'War Rises' deliver straightforward death metal aggression across 21 minutes of unrelenting heaviness.
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