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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.
Melodic death metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2021, painting vivid sonic portraits of suffering through melodic yet aggressive death metal. They bring emotional depth to the northern Finnish metal scene.
San Diego's Posercorpse have been fusing death metal's riff vocabulary with grindcore's propulsive speed since 2018, operating in the underground tradition of bands that take the name seriously — no pretension, just ferocity. Southern California's extreme scene runs deep, and Posercorpse represent its blunter, less polished edge.
Orem, Utah's Poserectomy emerged in 2024 with a deathcore-meets-brutal death metal approach that reflects Utah's surprisingly active heavy underground, combining breakdowns and guttural extremity in equal measure. The name alone — equal parts surgical and confrontational — signals a band that has no interest in playing nice with the scene's posturing.
Death metal band from Aviles, Spain, active since 2001, making them a veteran act in the Asturian death metal scene. Over two decades of crushing death metal mark them as pillars of the northwestern Spanish underground.
Death metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2014, delivering crushing death metal from the Portuguese capital for over a decade. They bring consistent heaviness to Lisbon's death metal community.
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