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Necrobode is a black/death metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2021. They bring extreme darkness from the Portuguese capital.
Denver's Necrobolism launched in 2025 with brutal death metal calibrated for maximum bodily damage at altitude. The Mile High City's extreme scene gains a new act with an ear for punishing low-end and an anatomy-textbook's worth of grisly inspiration.
İzmir black/death/thrash metal act formed in 2013, merging three extreme genres into a relentless assault from Turkey's Aegean coast. Their multi-genre fury channels the most aggressive elements of all three traditions.
Formed in 1988 by Skull Detonator, Sathan, and Kranium, Necrobutcher played a ferocious blend of death metal and grindcore where most tracks barely broke the one-minute mark. Their two 1989 demos, "Schizophrenic Christianity" and "Corrosive Noisy Torment," were later compiled by Nuclear War Now! Productions on the anthology "Schizophrenic Noisy Torment," preserving all 44 tracks of their brief but savage output.
Necrocadaveric Vomit is a death-grind band from Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina, formed around 2010 with a lineup including vocalist Joel Tutau, guitarist Santiago Pontoni, bassist Ariel Reyes, and drummer Mathías Chamorro. The band recorded their first demo, Putrid Flesh, in 2011 before releasing their self-titled full-length album in October 2015, a blistering 11-track set of pure deathgrind.
Necrocene is a death metal band from the Lucca/Florence area of Tuscany, Italy, active since 2011. Their name — evoking an epoch of death — signals the geological scale of their heaviness.
Necrocest is a brutal death metal act from Cardiff, Wales, active since 2014. The band channels crushing brutality from the Welsh capital's extreme metal scene.
Necrochaos is a death metal band from Lower Saxony, active since 2019. The band brings chaotic, unrelenting death metal to northern Germany's extreme music scene.
Kielce death/thrash metal act formed in 2020, delivering extreme aggression from the capital of the Holy Cross voivodeship in central Poland. Their dual-genre assault channels relentless intensity.
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