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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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German doom/death metal band from Haar near Munich, merging funeral heaviness with death metal intensity since 2013. Their name, meaning 'bone repository,' channels the skeletal, death-focused character of their Bavarian doom/death.
Black/death metal project from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2024. Their bone-themed name accompanies aggressive extreme metal from the Polish capital.
Italian death metal project active since 2023. The project delivers extreme metal with a bone-themed focus.
Ruthless Black / Death Metal out of Texas.
Madison's Ossuary bring a Midwest directness to death metal, leaning on heavy, mid-paced punishment over flashy technicality. Since 2015, they've been a reliable fixture in Wisconsin's underground scene, delivering the kind of punishing riffs the genre was built on.
Out of Elgin, Texas, Ossuary fuse black and death metal into a caustic, venomous strain that feels native to the unforgiving Texas heat. Since 2015, they've embodied the darkness lurking at the edges of the Hill Country underground.
Helsinki brutal death/groove metal act formed in 2023, merging skull-crushing brutality with rhythmic heaviness. Their pathological name -- referencing bone tissue death -- signals the visceral, anatomically themed extremity of their approach.
Osteoporosis Aguda is a death metal band from Cantaura, Anzoategui, Venezuela, formed in June 2014 by Ruth Figueredo and Luis Enrique Gomez. The band has released a debut full-length, "Suenos de eterna oscuridad..." (2016), and continued with split appearances and the EP "Bienvenida oscuridad, PT.1: Palingenesia" (2023).
Olsztynek death/thrash metal act from Warmia-Masuria in northeastern Poland, active since 2013. Named after the historical East Prussian region, their work carries the weight of a contested border territory's turbulent past.
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