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Black/death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2019. Their approach merges black and death metal from the Greek capital.
Black/death metal band from San Benedetto del Tronto on Italy's Adriatic coast, formed in 2019. Their approach merges black and death metal from the Marche seaside.
Resuscitation is a death metal trio from Meeuwen, Limburg, Belgium, formed in 1997, whose sound draws on black metal dissonance alongside old-school death metal brutality. Signed to Iron Bonehead Productions, they released the 7-inch 'Eviscerated Divinity' in 2015, featuring themes of Satanism and darkness.
Boston's Retained Surgical Instrument arrived in 2024 bearing one of extreme metal's most viscerally clinical names, pairing death metal's crushing weight with grindcore's velocity and brevity. Their medical horror conceptual framing is a tradition in goregrind and gore-death, but the name itself is precise enough to feel genuinely unsettling. A new contender in Boston's increasingly active brutal underground.
Retaliate was a death metal and hardcore band from Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium, active from 2000 to 2006 with a one-time reunion show in 2008. Released on Filled with Hate Records, the band channeled themes of societal collapse and anger, with 'Why We Hate' among their known releases.
Retaliator is a death/thrash metal band from Marbella on the Costa del Sol in Andalusia, Spain, formed in 2025. The band channels extreme metal aggression from the sun-soaked Andalusian coast.
Death metal and grindcore band from Curitiba, Paraná, whose lineup includes vocalist Larissa Pires, guitarist Felis Possesso, bassist Cristiano Deathreisen, and drummer Leonardo Freitas. The band released their self-titled debut in July 2012, followed by the full-length Decomposição Brutal in July 2016, both available through their Bandcamp page.
Los Angeles' Retch have been trafficking in brutal death metal and goregrind since 2012, occupying the most deliberately repulsive corner of extreme metal's spectrum with conviction and volume. Their roots go back to the earliest goregrind experiments, and their Los Angeles home gives them access to one of the country's most active extreme metal circuits. Uncompromising in the truest sense.
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