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Melodic death metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2016. Their approach delivers Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from Russia's cultural capital.
Istanbul technical death metal act formed in 2019, pushing death metal's complexity to its limits through intricate musicianship. Their demanding compositions channel the genre at its most cerebral.
From the small town of Byesville, Ohio, Reclusa have built one of the more genuinely hybrid sounds in the American underground since 2017 — death/doom heaviness threaded through with black metal cold, industrial noise, and dark ambient texture. The isolation of their rural Ohio setting comes through in music that feels removed from any scene, answering only to its own grim logic.
Reconstructed is a melodic death metal band from Hagen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2015. The band weaves melody into death metal from the Westphalian city at the edge of the Sauerland hills.
Death metal/grindcore band from Modena, Italy, active since 2011. Their long-running project delivers extreme velocity and heaviness from the Emilia-Romagna city.
Recrehate is a death/thrash metal band from Recklinghausen in the northern Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2016. The band delivers aggressive death-thrash from one of the Ruhr's most densely populated industrial cities.
Rectal Devastation is a slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band from West Yorkshire, England, active since 2011. The band delivers extreme slam and goregrind from the industrial north.
Rectal Implosion is a technical/brutal death metal band from Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, formed in 2014. The band delivers precision brutality from the major city of northern England.
Goregrind and brutal death metal band from Naaldwijk, the Netherlands, with roots dating to 2004. Two decades of deliberately grotesque extreme metal from the South Holland greenhouse district.
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