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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Portland, Oregon black/death/grind outfit formed in 2019, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's thriving extreme underground to deliver short, vicious assaults that refuse to settle neatly into any one extreme subgenre.
Death metal band from Limoges, France, formed in 2021, bringing provocatively named death metal to the Haute-Vienne department. Their irreverent attitude matches the aggression of their sound.
Blagoevgrad's Powerdrive has been delivering no-frills death metal since 2018, drawing from the early Stockholm and Tampa schools in equal measure. Their southwestern Bulgarian origins place them in a region better known for folk traditions than blastbeats, making their heaviness all the more striking.
Pustulent is a one-man death metal project from Sorocaba run by Leandro, who also performs in the band Cadaveric Mutation. The debut release "Purulent Flesh Infection," a five-track EP issued in 2024 on Iron Fortress Records, opens with a sample from Lucio Fulci's 1981 film House by the Cemetery and draws comparisons to Carcass for its gore-themed riffing; the same year saw a second release, "Septic Liquid Excretion," and an appearance on the split "Splitmas Gorefest."
Milwaukee death metal and metalcore hybrid active since 2007, a long-running fixture of the Wisconsin underground combining the blunt-force trauma of death metal with metalcore's structural aggression.
Death and thrash metal band from Vanersborg, Sweden, formed in 2023, delivering put-down-caliber death-thrash from the Vastra Gotaland region. They bring fresh aggression to the Swedish metal scene.
Death metal band from Alingsas, Sweden, formed in 2020, delivering old-school Swedish death metal from the Vastra Gotaland region. They carry the torch of the legendary Swedish death metal sound.
Death metal band from Transylvania, Romania, formed in 2020, delivering putrid death metal from the legendary region. They channel Transylvanian darkness through festering extremity.
Death metal and grindcore band from Brescia, Italy, formed in 2019, whose Italian name means 'putrefaction.' They deliver appropriately rotting death-grind from the Lombardy industrial heartland.
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