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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Extreme Power Metal (2019)
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rosemary (2023)
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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.
Possessdeath is a death metal band from Valparaíso, Chile, featuring members Javier Arancibia and Juan Navarrete on guitar, Sergio Trujillo on bass, and Paolo Fernandez on drums. The band self-produced their debut EP The Breath of Death in 2015. They are listed on Metal Archives under the melodic death metal subgenre.
Post Heaven arrived in 2023 with melodic black-death metal that sits in the liminal space between anguish and beauty — the kind of sound that surfaces when black metal's atmosphere meets death metal's brute propulsion with melody threading through both. Without a fixed city on the map, the music itself becomes the location.
Death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2017, delivering pulsating death metal from the Finnish capital. They are part of Helsinki's consistently productive extreme metal community.
Slam and brutal death metal band from London, England, formed in 2017, whose tongue-in-cheek name plays on PTSD while delivering genuinely punishing slam. They bring humorous self-awareness to the London brutal death metal scene.
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