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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Savage Melodic Death / Black Metal from Houston.
Deltona, Florida's Pretorius arrived in 2021 with a death metal sound that places them within Central Florida's rich tradition of brutal, technically-minded extremity. Despite their Bandcamp URL referencing doom, their Metal Archives classification points firmly at death metal — suggesting a band willing to let heaviness take whatever form the moment demands, while keeping the crushing intent front and center.
Hailing from the small Belarusian city of Maladzyechna, Prevail has been forging melodic death metal since 2014. Their Gothenburg-influenced approach — soaring twin harmonies over aggressive rhythms — brings a touch of Swedish melodicism to the Belarusian underground.
A veteran Catalan death metal act since 1994, Banyoles's Pulmons Negres — 'Black Lungs' in Catalan — has been breathing decay into the northeastern Spanish underground for three decades. Their use of the Catalan language roots them firmly in the region's fiercely independent cultural identity.
Technical death metal and deathcore band from Plock, Poland, formed in 2021, delivering technically demanding extremity from central Poland. They bring storm-force intensity to the Masovian metal underground.
Thrash and death metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2019, bringing politically charged aggression to the Czech extreme metal scene. Their name alone signals an irreverent and confrontational approach to metal.
A brand-new brutal death metal act out of North Carolina, Priapism launched in 2025 with a focus on the most extreme end of the slam spectrum — dense, down-tuned riffs colliding with percussive breakdowns designed to flatten audiences. Even at this early stage they're working within a tradition that prizes physicality and blunt-force impact above all else. One to watch as they develop their catalog.
Chicago's Priapism arrived in 2025 as a brutal death and slam outfit channeling the city's long history of underground extremity into something distinctly punishing. Rooted in the collision of slam's rhythmic brutality and death metal's technical savagery, the band wastes no time with subtlety. Their Bandcamp presence signals a project already taking shape with serious intent.
Death metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2013, exacting the ultimate toll through over a decade of death metal from the Russian capital. They bring consistent brutality to Moscow's underground.
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