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This Godless Endeavor (2005)
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Austrian death and sludge metal band from Braunau am Inn, formed in 2016, combining elements of grindcore and hardcore into their heavy sound. Their lineup features members connected to other regional acts including Ultrawurscht and Behind the Mask.
Keyport, New Jersey's Psychosis play straight-ahead death metal with a focused, underground-first approach — formed in 2017, they operate in the tradition of classic East Coast brutality, favoring density and aggression over experimentation.
Seattle, Washington's Psychosis formed in 2017, delivering death metal from the Pacific Northwest — their sound carries the darker, atmosphere-tinged quality of the region's extreme underground, married to the genre's core brutalist impulses.
Brutal death metal band from Moscow and Saratov, Russia, formed in 2016, performing sonic lobotomies through devastating brutal death metal. They bring clinical precision to the Russian brutal death metal scene.
Richmond, Virginia's Psychotic Defilement have been operating in the brutal death metal underground since 2016, building a reputation for relentless low-end punishment and technical brutality that fits naturally into Richmond's historically extreme metal scene.
Death and thrash metal band from Venice, Italy, formed in 2015, dissecting extreme metal from the floating city. Their surgical name suits the precision of their death-thrash approach.
Portland, Oregon's Psychotropic carve an unusual niche in the Pacific Northwest underground, combining the corrosive weight of sludge metal with black and death metal's extremity — a murky, suffocating blend that suits Portland's reputation for genre-defying heaviness.
Salem, Ohio's Psyclosarin formed in 2019 playing a grinding hybrid of groove and death metal — the combination of rhythmic heaviness and technical death metal aggression gives them a distinct character within Ohio's active and underrated heavy underground.
Leipzig's Psycrotted delivers death-thrash with the intensity befitting one of eastern Germany's most culturally vibrant cities. Their Saxon base connects them to a growing scene that has emerged from the shadow of reunification with renewed creative energy.
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