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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Brooklyn's Pyrrhon are among the most challenging voices in experimental death metal, dismantling the genre's conventions through dissonant, writhing song structures informed by noise, free jazz, and avant-garde sensibilities that have made them a cult fixture since 2010.
Black and death metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2021, delivering explosive blackened death metal from the Russian capital. They bring dark intensity to Moscow's extreme metal community.
A Long Beach, California death metal act formed in 2024, Pythagoras enters the scene with the raw aggression of the state's longstanding underground tradition, channeling direct and punishing death metal rooted in the Southern California heavy music community.
Floral Park, New York's Pytt are a death metal act formed in 2023, bringing the underground aggression of the greater New York metropolitan area to bear through a sound rooted in the genre's foundational brutality and uncompromising intensity.
Technical death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2011, delivering technically intricate death metal from Finland's former capital. Their medical-term name suits the clinical precision of their compositions.
Death and thrash metal band from Chornomorsk, Ukraine, formed in 2012, delivering over a decade of death-thrash from the Black Sea port city near Odesa. They bring maritime extremity to the Ukrainian coast.
Death and thrash metal band from Manlleu, Spain, formed in 2018, whose Spanish name means 'panic from fear.' They channel that terror into aggressive death-thrash from the Catalan interior.
Pútrido is a grindcore band from Mauá, São Paulo, formed by guitarist and vocalist Bruno Teixeira of Desalmado alongside vocalist Carlos Silvério and drummer Anderson Leonardo, both from Aftermath. Their debut EP Justiça? — seven tracks across 13 minutes — was released on February 10, 2023 after years of interrupted recordings, with all production handled in studios within Mauá.
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