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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Rifftera is an alternative/melodic death/thrash metal band from Vaasa on the west coast of Finland, formed in 2015. The band blends alternative metal accessibility with melodic death and thrash from the Ostrobothnian coast.
Right Before Summer is a metalcore and melodic death metal band from Nagold in the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, formed in 2013. The band fuses metalcore dynamics with melodic death metal hooks from the northern Black Forest.
Long Island's Rigor Sardonicous occupies a particularly suffocating corner of extreme metal, blending funeral doom's glacial tempos with the rotting weight of death metal into something genuinely oppressive. Founded in 2009, the band strips away any trace of accessibility in favor of cavernous atmosphere and crushing, elongated compositions. Few acts in the funeral doom/death metal space commit so fully to the art of slow, deliberate destruction.
Death metal band from Kostroma, Russia, active since 2009. Their long-running project delivers death metal from the ancient Golden Ring city.
Death metal band from Hungary, formed in 2023. Their approach delivers uncompromising death metal.
Bar thrash/death/black metal act formed in 2015, merging three extreme subgenres from Montenegro's Adriatic port city. Their genre-spanning aggression makes them a notable presence in the tiny Montenegrin metal scene.
Riket is a death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, established in 2016. Describing themselves as 'a vessel of memory, a grim messenger tying the present to the chilling truths that linger in the past,' the band goes beyond conventional death metal with narrative-driven intensity.
Thrash/death metal band from Terralba in Sardinia's Oristano province, active since 2007. Nearly two decades of extreme metal from the Sardinian countryside.
Out of Lawrence, Kansas, Rimjob have been weaponizing the grindcore/death metal collision since 2016 with a relentless, economical brutality. Their songs are short, vicious, and deliberately stripped of any pretense — pure aggression delivered at maximum velocity. Despite operating in a college town better known for indie rock, they've built a reputation in underground extreme metal circles for uncompromising nastiness.
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