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Operating out of Limassol since 2014, Project: Oblivion combines the melodic intricacy of Scandinavian melodeath with thrash metal's rhythmic drive. As one of Cyprus's few extreme metal exports, they represent the island's small but passionate underground scene.
Technical death metal band from Wloclawek, Poland, formed in 2015, crafting mathematically precise technical death metal. They bring cerebral extremity to the Kuyavian metal scene.
Death metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2013, whose visceral name matches the violent intensity of their death metal. They bring uncompromising brutality to Tampere's extreme metal community.
Death metal and goregrind band from Seville, Spain, formed in 2016, trafficking in the most extreme and grotesque corners of death metal. They bring visceral sonic violence to the Andalusian underground.
Hlinsko's Prolapsed trades in the most extreme end of the death metal spectrum since 2018, specializing in the guttural, slam-inflected brutality that defines the genre's most uncompromising wing. Their small-town Bohemian origins add underdog credibility to their punishing sound.
Formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 2017, Promession deal in the ugliest end of the death metal spectrum, blending brutal death metal and goregrind into a suffocating wall of blast beats and guttural punishment. The Arizona heat seems baked into their abrasive sound, which leans heavily on the sonic traditions of midwest and southwest brutal death without flinching from extremity.
Kassel's Promethean Fire has been forging technical melodic death metal since 2022, their mythological name evoking the theft of divine knowledge. Their Hessian base breeds compositions that balance precision picking with the genre's signature harmonic sweep.
Black and death metal band from Oxford, England, formed in 2017, bringing extreme metal darkness to the historic university city. They channel mythological fire through blackened death metal.
Out of Oswego, New York — a small city on Lake Ontario far removed from any major metal hub — Prometheon have been forging death/thrash metal since 2014. Their sound sits at the crossroads where surgical thrash riffing collides with the downtuned brutality of death metal, the kind of regional underground band that thrives on grit over polish.
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