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Necrodium is a death metal band from Helsinki, active since 2020. The band delivers pure death metal from the Finnish capital.
Rooted in the Santos metal underground, Necrodulia plays old-school black/death metal in the vein of Blasphemy, Mystifier, and Beherit. The band features a tight-knit lineup including guitarist Ailton "Tita" Silva, drummer Ezequiel Fidalgo, bassist Ludmilla Carvalho, and vocalist Rodrigo Silva, drawing from the Baixada Santista scene's long extreme metal tradition.
Dals Långed black/death metal project launched in 2025, merging atmospheric intensity with guttural extremity from the forested Dalsland region. Their remote origins lend an isolated quality to their dark fusion.
NecroEvolution is an innovative melodic death metal and synthwave project from Ulm, Germany, formed in 2025. The project fuses the aggression of melodic death metal with the retro-futuristic pulse of synthwave from the Swabian Danube city.
Necrofactor is a death/thrash metal band from Chile playing a groove-driven style they describe as groove thrash. The band released the full-length Ciclo de Destrucción in November 2016, an eleven-track independent album with Spanish-language lyrics exploring themes of destruction, illness, and political defiance. The record is distributed digitally on major platforms and was stocked physically through Chilean metal label Australis Records.
Necrofili is a death metal band from Rieti in central Italy, active since 2016. Their provocative name accompanies uncompromising death metal from this Sabine city.
Death/thrash metal act originating from the microstate of San Marino and extending to nearby Verucchio in Rimini, formed in 2019. Their extreme output represents one of the few metal acts from the world's oldest republic.
A death metal band from the Rio de Janeiro state that was active from 1989 through 1996, leaving behind demo recordings including "Corta vida" and a live tape captured at Baraonda Shitclub in April 1996. Their sound drew from the same pit of brutality that defined the early Brazilian death metal underground.
Necrofily is a death metal band from Ericeira, Portugal, active since 2018. They deliver morbid death metal from this surf town on the Atlantic coast northwest of Lisbon.
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