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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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Death metal band from Anglet and Biarritz, France, formed in 2018, bringing devastating death metal from the Basque coast of France. They deliver punishing extremity from the surfing capital of Europe.
The name is a provocation and so is the music — Propitious Vegetation from Unionville, Tennessee formed in 2018 with a foundation in slam and brutal death metal before evolving their approach toward more varied death metal territory. The band's rural Tennessee origins feel at odds with the cosmopolitan brutality of the slam genre they helped represent, and that tension between place and genre is part of what makes them interesting.
Death metal band from Sosnowiec, Poland, formed in 2024, whose name references the autopsy room. They bring freshly dissected death metal to the Silesian underground.
Death metal band from Olawa, Poland, formed in 2010, sharing their dissection-themed name with other anatomically inclined metal acts. Over fifteen years they have delivered methodical death metal from Lower Silesia.
Barcelona's Pycaya has been delivering groove metal's mid-tempo crunch since 2015, channeling rhythmic heaviness through a Catalan lens. Their Mediterranean base adds warmth and swing to their head-nodding, riff-driven approach.
Death metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2013, whose Greek-derived name relates to prostration or worship. They deliver devoted death metal extremity from one of Yorkshire's most active metal cities.
Death metal band from Simferopol, Ukraine, formed in 2020, named after the neurological condition of face blindness. They deliver clinically precise death metal from the Crimean capital.
Out of Philadelphia since 2011, Prosper or Perish work the crossroads of melodic death metal and deathcore — pairing hook-driven guitar leads with the crushing breakdowns and blastbeat intensity that define the heavier end of the modern death spectrum. The result is a sound that is as surgically precise as it is punishing.
Death metal and deathcore band from London, England, formed in 2013, delivering mechanically precise extreme metal from the British capital. They blend death metal brutality with deathcore's modern heaviness.
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