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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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Brive-la-Gaillarde's Pervitine channels black metal from the Corrèze department since 2023, named after the methamphetamine brand used by WWII soldiers. Their remote Limousin setting breeds a wired, paranoid intensity befitting their pharmaceutical namesake.
Richmond's Pergola has been honing their brand of deathcore since 2007, fusing Virginia's hardcore-rooted aggression with cavernous death metal heaviness and wall-to-wall sonic punishment.
Death metal band from Falun, Sweden, formed in 2010, delivering over fifteen years of death metal from the historic Dalarna copper mining city. They are veterans of the central Swedish underground.
Salem, Oregon's Perihelion has been crafting death metal at the point of closest orbit since 2014 — precise, punishing riffwork that burns bright and leaves scorched earth.
Progressive death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2016, named after the point in an orbit closest to the sun. They craft cerebral, cosmically themed progressive death metal with ambitious songwriting.
Experimental technical death metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2021, pushing the boundaries of death metal through technical experimentation. They bring avant-garde extremity to the Petersburg scene.
Paris's Pessimistic has been living up to their name with bleak black metal since 2011. Over a decade of nihilistic output from the French capital has produced a body of work defined by its refusal to find hope in any corner.
Thrash, speed, and death metal band from Finland, with roots stretching back decades. They deliver old-school extreme metal ferocity rooted in the earliest traditions of Finnish metal.
Berlin's Peripheral Cortex has been dissecting technical death metal since 2016, their neuroscience-inspired name reflecting the clinical precision of their playing. The German capital's cosmopolitan extreme metal scene provides fertile ground for their cerebral approach.
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