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Necromanteum (2023)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Black and death metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2022, delivering savage blackened death metal from the Spanish capital. They carry the torch of bestial war metal in the Iberian underground.
Profanatica are one of the defining acts of American black/death metal, a project forged in the early 1990s New York underground by Paul Ledney with a mission of total anti-Christian extremity that predates much of the Norwegian scene's notoriety. Reconvening in 2006 after a long hiatus, they have continued issuing some of the most deliberately primitive and blasphemous recordings in the genre — raw, irreverent, and utterly uncompromising.
One of Bavaria's longest-running extreme metal acts, Profane Existence has been blending melodic black and death metal from Bad Tölz since 1994. Over three decades of output from the alpine foothills have earned them veteran status in the German underground.
Profane Ruination emerged from Knoxville, Tennessee in 2022 with a death metal attack rooted in brutality and purposeful aggression. Their approach channels the grim, suffocating weight of the genre's foundational acts while bringing a rawness that reflects the band's relative youth and hunger. Still early in their catalog, they represent a promising voice in the underground death metal scene of the American South.
Berlin's Profane Sanctum has been melding melodic death metal with groove-inflected heaviness since 2018. Their capital-city base provides access to Germany's most diverse metal community, feeding a sound that draws from multiple extreme subgenres.
Doom and death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024, juxtaposing the profane with tranquility through crushing doom-death. They channel dark serenity from the Greek capital.
Death metal band from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2019, delivering profane death metal from one of Poland's most storied metal cities. They contribute to Krakow's rich extreme metal legacy.
Hanover's Professor has been lecturing in death metal and grindcore since 2013, delivering short, brutal lessons in sonic extremity. Their Lower Saxon capital base places them in one of northern Germany's most active metal scenes.
A 2025 death-thrash project from the Hessian town of Grünberg, Profet channels prophetic fury through riff-driven compositions. Their fresh arrival on the scene brings new energy to the central German extreme metal underground.
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