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Peristaltic Movement traffic in old-school death metal built around grotesque medical and pathological imagery, best showcased on their self-released debut Anomalies Museum (2017), recorded at Estúdio AM in Rio de Janeiro and mastered in Athens. Tracks like "Cranioscopy," "Colonizing the Orbital Cavity," and "Desintegration of Human Tissue" make the thematic territory plain — this is clinical, unadorned death metal with no concessions to polish.
Death metal band from Poland, formed in 2020, whose Finnish name means 'born from the devil.' They bring Finnish-language infernal death metal to the Polish underground.
Death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2017, percolating crushing death metal from the Swedish capital. They bring over eight years of heaviness to the Stockholm scene.
Founded in Divinópolis in 2008, Perlokus is a raw black/death metal duo — VoidNecroLust and HEL Antichrist Revenge — who cite Sarcófago's INRI as the defining template for their sound: primitive, blasphemic, and chaotic. After years of demos and a brief name change to Ritos Abominaveis, they returned as Perlokus and released two full-lengths, Ainda Morto e Decomposto (2016) and Hóstia Podre (2019) via Brazilian Ritual Records, both cementing their place in the South American underground extreme metal tradition.
An Emsland-based project since 2019, Permutation explores the intersection of melodic death and black metal through ever-shifting arrangements. Their name aptly describes their approach — constantly rearranging genre elements into new configurations.
Perpetual Devourer is a death metal band from Quito, Ecuador, formed in January 2025 by guitarist and vocalist Adrián Salazar alongside drummer Diego Ocampo and bassist Víctor Ordoñez. The band released their debut album Spirits of Annihilation in late 2025 through Death Forces Records, a five-track record recorded at Winners Productions in Latacunga that delivers straightforward, aggressive death metal. Signing to a dedicated death metal label in their debut year signals the band's intent to establish a serious presence in the genre.
Perpetual Obscene is a death metal band from Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, formed in 2020. They released their debut EP, Funereal Hymns to Bury Mankind, in 2022 through Vomit Records.
Death and thrash metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2011, waging perpetual sonic warfare for over a decade from the Swedish capital. They bring relentless aggression to the Stockholm scene.
Torrevieja's Pestilent Decay has been cultivating death metal on the sun-baked Costa Blanca since 2012. The contrast between their Mediterranean resort-town setting and their putrid sonic output captures the genre's love of subverting expectations.
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