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Necromanteum (2023)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Necropota is a grindcore, black metal, and brutal death metal band from Madrid, active since 2011. The band delivers a chaotic fusion of extreme subgenres from the Spanish capital.
Necropsia is a death metal and metalcore band from Debrecen, Hungary, formed in 2023. They bring forensic brutality to Hungary's eastern plain.
Necropsy is a death metal band from Nuremberg, Bavaria, active since 2022. The band delivers forensic-grade death metal from Franconia's largest city.
Khmelnytskyi brutal death metal act formed in 2019, delivering guttural punishment from western Ukraine. Their extreme approach channels death metal's most visceral and punishing traditions.
Necropsychosis is a death/doom/thrash metal band from Yessentuki, Russia, formed in 2023. They deliver extreme metal from this North Caucasus spa town in the Mineralnye Vody region.
A self-described "old school death metal fleshcult" from Pernambuco whose approach owes a clear debt to the goregrind end of early 1990s extremity — their Repulsion cover signals as much. They debuted with the 2024 demo "Anatomy of the Grotesque" and followed it with the "Frenzied Necrotiscism" EP.
Necroracle is a death/black metal band from Barcelona, active since 2018. The band channels oracular darkness through extreme metal from Catalonia's vibrant music scene.
Necroreich is a Finnish black/death metal project active since 2017. The project delivers ferocious black-death from the Finnish underground.
Necros is a death metal band from Colmar in the Alsace region of France, with origins stretching back to 1981, making them one of the earliest extreme metal acts in France. Their long history places them as pioneers of the French death metal scene.
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