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The Blind Leading The Blind (2019)
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Blood Eagle (2017)
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Architects Of A New Weave (Deluxe Album) (2026)
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Death metal and grindcore band from Ukraine, formed in 2018, delivering extreme sonic violence from the Ukrainian underground. They bring grinding death metal intensity.
Death metal and hardcore band from the Netherlands, formed in 2011, whose provocative Italian name is among the most notorious blasphemies in the Italian language. They channel confrontational extremity through death metal and hardcore.
Experimental death and doom metal band from Sonta, Serbia, named after the blood disorder porphyria. They bring medically themed experimental extremity to the Vojvodina underground.
Melodic death metal band from Povazska Bystrica, Slovakia, active since 2005, delivering two decades of melodic death metal from the Povazie region. They are among the longest-running melodic death metal acts in Slovakia.
A 2025 Copenhagen death metal project, Pustulant Flesh deals in the most viscerally unpleasant imagery the genre can offer. Their capital-city base connects them to Denmark's deep death metal lineage while their name signals an allegiance to the genre's most grotesque traditions.
Porta Daemonium is a Santiago-based occult death metal band whose roots trace back to 1998 under the name Porta Salomoniis, reforming under the current name in 2011. Drawing from the approaches of Immolation, Incantation, and early Morbid Angel, they released their debut full-length Serpent of Chaos in 2016 on Iron, Blood & Death Corporation, with a vinyl edition following in 2017 on Sweden's Blood Harvest Records. The band continued activity through the 2019 split Emancifestation From Sinister Side and the 2020 split The Southern Spirits Old Chants.
Portaestandarte is a black/death metal project from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2018. The band released the single "The Last Battalion" in 2021 and followed it with the demo For the Man Who Will Come in 2022, issued as a limited 100-copy cassette through Ingo Perzel Promotion.
Alzira's Pron delivers brutal death metal and grindcore from the Valencian Ribera Alta since 2014. Their Júcar river valley setting provides an unlikely home for some of the region's most unrelenting sonic punishment.
Kansas City's Portrait of God arrived in 2024 swinging the full arsenal of goregrind, slam, and brutal death metal — grotesque, low-tuned, and utterly uninterested in anything that isn't maximally crushing. The name's irreverent blasphemy sets the tone: this is a project that delights in provocation and delivers the heaviness to back it up.
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