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Sunol, California's Reverted have been pursuing no-frills death metal since 2011, operating out of the East Bay's unpretentious underground with a sound that favors density and heaviness over technical showmanship. Their approach is old-school at its core — crushing, mid-paced death metal with enough groove to keep the head moving and enough filth to satisfy death metal purists. Fifteen years of activity have sharpened their approach to a brutal point.
Revigator is a death/thrash metal band from Sweden, formed in 2020. Their album 'Medieval' channels a nostalgic late-80s/early-90s thrash and proto-death metal feel with influences from Slayer, Kreator, and Death while forging its own identity.
Seattle's Reviled have been fusing black and death metal into something caustic and extreme since 2017, drawing on both traditions without fully surrendering to either. The black/death combination gives their music a fevered quality — the atmospheric menace of black metal colliding with death metal's sheer physical force — and Seattle's grey, rain-soaked environment seems like a fitting birthplace for something this unrelenting. The Bandcamp URL referencing Texas adds an intriguing wrinkle to what is otherwise a thoroughly Pacific Northwest-rooted sound.
Revisal is a technical death metal and deathcore band from Kotka in southeastern Finland, formed in 2024. The band delivers precision brutality from the port city on the Gulf of Finland.
Black/death metal band from Esteio, Rio Grande do Sul, founded in 2010 by guitarist Wagner Santos with anti-religious lyrical themes. The band issued the EP Behind the Throne of God in 2012, the EP Conqueror of the Unholy Light in 2020, and the full-length Crux Enim Est Ardere in 2022. They have shared stages with Krisiun, Marduk, Malevolent Creation, and Vital Remains, and won Metal Devastation Radio's Battle of the Bands competition in January 2020.
Progressive death metal band from Nizhny Tagil, Russia, active since 2016. Their approach pushes death metal into progressive territory from the Ural industrial city.
Death metal band from Leeds, England, active since 2011. Their long-running project delivers death metal from the West Yorkshire city.
Maryland's Revolted Excrescence arrived in 2021 trafficking in the most putrid end of old-school death metal — goregrind-adjacent in its devotion to grotesque aesthetics and primitive, cavern-dwelling sound design. The name alone signals what kind of death metal this is: not clinical or technical, but deliberately excessive and confrontational in the finest traditions of the genre's most extreme practitioners. Maryland's underground has always had room for bands willing to push into truly depraved territory, and Revolted Excrescence occupy that space without apology.
Progressive death/thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2009. Their politically charged name accompanies technically complex extreme metal across more than fifteen years.
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