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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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San Francisco deathcore outfit Out for Blood launched in 2016 with the Bay Area's characteristic no-frills aggression baked in from the start. They lean into the genre's heaviest impulses — bone-crushing breakdowns and death metal riff velocity — without sacrificing intensity for polish. Their name says everything about their intent.
Swiss melodic death metal/metalcore band from Lausanne, combining harmonic precision with hardcore aggression since 2017. Their name suggests the boundary-breaking, transgressive character of their approach.
Kaluga melodic death metal act formed in 2024, the newest addition to this central Russian city's growing extreme metal output. Their approach applies Scandinavian melodeath conventions with a distinctly Russian melodic sensibility.
Kazincbarcika death metal act from northeastern Hungary, formed in 2024. Emerging from one of the country's most economically depressed industrial towns, their death metal carries the weight of post-industrial decline.
Belarusian melodic death metal/deathcore hybrid from Minsk with roots reaching back to 2007, making them among the older extreme metal acts still active in the country. Their sound has evolved over nearly two decades from raw deathcore toward more melodically refined territory.
Milwaukee death metal newcomers Outer Graves arrived in 2023, already reaching for the darkest end of the spectrum. Wisconsin's metal underground has always rewarded uncompromising brutality, and this outfit seems intent on earning their place in it. Still early in their trajectory, but the foundation is unambiguously grim.
Outer Heaven is a death metal band from Douglassville, Pennsylvania, formed in 2012 and signed to Relapse Records. Their 2018 debut Realms of Eternal Decay established them as one of the stronger voices in contemporary American death metal, drawing on cavernous production and punishing riffs indebted to old-school Florida and New York death metal. The band has continued releasing material, including the covers album In Tribute, paying homage to Repulsion, Morbid Angel, Pig Destroyer, Mortician, and Death.
Devastating Death Metal / Grindcore out of Texas.
Heraklion death metal act from the island of Crete, active since 2016. Their Mediterranean island setting provides an unlikely but atmospherically rich backdrop for their brand of uncompromising death metal.
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