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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Kiel's Plague upon the Ocean brings death metal and deathcore fury to the Baltic coast since 2013. Their maritime Schleswig-Holstein setting informs a name that conjures biblical devastation upon the northern seas.
Death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2025, serving as a vessel for pestilent death metal from the Finnish capital. They represent the newest wave of Helsinki's extreme metal.
Death and thrash metal band from Finspang, Sweden, formed in 2011, detonating explosive death-thrash from the Ostergotland region. Over fourteen years of warhead-like intensity.
Pittsburgh's Plague Witch arrived in 2020 with a melodic black/death metal sound that balances scorching ferocity with sharp, memorable songcraft — dark and relentless without sacrificing hooks.
Texas death metal project Plague Zombie emerged in 2025 with rotting riffs and an old-school approach to undead brutality, joining the Lone Star State's long tradition of foul, uncompromising extremity.
A 2024 German black-death metal project, Plagueblade wields the two genres like twin weapons — one atmospheric, one bludgeoning. Their nascent output promises the kind of pestilent ferocity their name demands.
Dresden's Plaguecaster arrived in 2025 channeling black-death metal from the Baroque splendor of Saxony's capital. The tension between the city's architectural beauty and the project's sonic ugliness creates a compelling artistic contradiction.
Plaguemace was a Danish death metal band from Horsens, Jutland, formed in fall 2019 and signed to Napalm Records. The band released a six-track EP, Primal Priest, in 2020, followed by their debut full-length Reptilian Warlords, delivering a groove-heavy, riff-forward death metal sound with thrash metal drive. The band announced their dissolution in February 2026 after a six-year run.
Black, death, and speed metal band from Malmo, Sweden, formed in 2015, storming through the Scandinavian underground with a decade of multi-faceted extreme metal. They bring triple-genre fury from southern Sweden.
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