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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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This Godless Endeavor (2005)
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San Francisco's Ontogeny approach technical and progressive death metal as an exercise in deliberate architecture, their riffs interlocking like molecular structures across dense, intellectually restless records. Nearly two decades in, they remain one of the Bay Area's most challenging underground voices.
German melodic death/groove metal band from Duisburg, formed in 2023 and blending harmonic precision with rhythmic punch. Their sinful name channels the transgressive character of their groovy melodeath.
Phoenix grindcore and death metal outfit Oozing attack with the kind of blistering, sun-baked aggression you'd expect from the Arizona desert — short, violent, and utterly without mercy. Their blasts hit like heat shimmering off asphalt at noon in July.
German black/death metal band from Annaberg-Buchholz in the Ore Mountains, formed in 2021. Their name, meaning 'lack of transparency,' channels the impenetrable, obscure darkness of their extreme metal.
A one-man old school death metal project helmed by Cláudio Slayer, Open the Coffin worships the HM-2 chainsaw tone and traffics in horror imagery centered on zombies, cemetery rituals, and slasher lore. Their 2019 debut EP "Only Death Prevails" was tracked at Black Hole Studio in Natal and released through Black Hole Productions, delivering a raw, suffocating sound indebted to the Swedish death metal tradition.
Heavy Progressive Death Metal / Deathcore from Houston.
Legendary Italian extreme metal band from Biella, Piedmont, with a history spanning multiple eras and stylistic phases from gothic/doom/death metal to symphonic black metal. Opera IX are among Italy's most internationally recognized extreme metal acts, with their theatrics and occult themes defining a uniquely Italian approach to the genre.
Falkirk's Operation Cunt Destroyer delivers exactly the kind of unsubtle, confrontational brutal death metal and deathcore their name promises. Their slammed-out riffs, guttural pig squeals, and relentless blast beats leave no room for nuance or restraint.
Avant-garde/technical thrash and death metal band from Oslo, Norway, with roots dating to 2003. Over two decades of experimental extreme metal represent a boundary-pushing force in the Norwegian capital's metal scene.
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