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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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Le Havre death metal act formed in 2018, bringing extreme metal to Normandy's largest port city. Their output channels death metal's darkest impulses from a city better known for its UNESCO-listed modernist architecture than its metal scene.
Death metal band from Iquique in Chile's Tarapacá region whose lyrics engage with occultism and spiritual transcendence, delivered entirely in Spanish. Their debut album El Yo Superior Nunca Olvida was recorded in Iquique in late 2014 and released in 2018 via Blood Harvest Records, with the band also issuing a two-track promotional release, Promo MMXVIII, the same year.
German melodic death/thrash metal band from Horneburg with rock elements, blending harmonic sophistication with aggressive precision since 2011. Their all-seeing-eye name signals the watchful, perceptive character of their versatile metal.
Ocean of Grief from Athens crafts mournful death-doom metal that balances crushing heaviness with sorrowful melody, recalling the melancholic grandeur of early Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride. Their compositions unfold with patient, emotional weight, allowing grief-stricken atmospherics to permeate every note.
New Jersey's Ocean of Illusions pull deathcore's metallic breakdown energy into genuine death metal territory, building a sound that hits with weight and purpose rather than spectacle. Formed in 2015, they've been quietly hardening their edge ever since.
Gothic/doom/death metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2021. Their oceanic name frames their blend of gothic atmosphere, doom metal's weight, and death metal's intensity from the Eternal City.
Houston progressive doom/death metal with powerful clean vocals. Emotionally devastating heaviness.
Death metal band from Vestmannaeyjar, the Westman Islands off southern Iceland, formed in 2024. Their Norse-named project delivers death metal from one of the most remote populated places in Europe.
Belarusian death metal/metalcore band from Vitebsk, burying hope in extreme metal aggression since 2010. Their name captures the despair and darkness at the core of their aggressive sound.
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