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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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Technical death metal band from Brighton, England, formed in 2020, delivering intricate and technically demanding death metal from the seaside city. They bring cerebral extremity to the South Coast metal scene.
Heavy Technical / Brutal Death Metal out of Texas.
Parasiticide wage total sonic war across black metal, death metal, and grindcore, letting the three styles collide without quarter. Formed in 2020, the band's location-free status suggests a project more concerned with extremity than geography.
Death metal band from Kingston upon Hull, England, formed in 2012, infecting the Yorkshire metal scene with crushing death metal since their inception. They are a veteran act in the Hull underground.
Death metal band from Scheveningen, Netherlands, active since 2003, named after the bacterial infection. Over two decades they have delivered infectious death metal from the North Sea coast.
Metalcore and melodic death metal band from Bolzano, Italy, formed in 2020, blending Scandinavian melodic death metal with modern metalcore from the alpine South Tyrol region. They bridge Italian and Germanic metal traditions.
Symphonic death metal band from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, with roots stretching back to 1985, making them one of the oldest metal acts in the Russian Far East. Their decades of activity from Sakhalin Island represent remarkable dedication.
Wichita, Kansas's Parthian draw on Scandinavian melodic death metal as a foundation and fold progressive structures into the mix, arriving at a sophisticated heaviness since 2016. Their songs carry enough emotional weight to match the technical ambition, a balance not every prog-death act achieves.
Slam and brutal death metal band from Dunfermline, Scotland, formed in 2010, notorious for their colorful, party-themed logo that stands out against the illegible logos of their peers. Behind the humor lies genuinely crushing slam death metal.
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