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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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Memphis, Tennessee's Ruined God, formed in 2024, merges the grime and molasses tempo of sludge metal with death metal's harsher, more visceral tendencies — fitting the city's tradition of producing heavy music steeped in murk and menace. It's an early project that already sounds weathered and purposeful.
Zvolen doom/death metal act formed in 2022, merging crushing heaviness with death metal extremity from central Slovakia's forested highlands. Their slow-burning approach channels the most ponderous traditions of both genres.
San Diego's Ruinist play a driving blend of melodic death and thrash metal, carving out riff-heavy arrangements that balance aggression with melodic purpose since their formation in 2014.
Formed in Atlanta in 2020, Ruinous Crusade deliver straight-ahead death metal with the punishing heaviness you'd expect from a band whose very name implies relentless forward assault.
Thrash/death metal band from Preston, England, formed in 2023. Their approach merges thrash velocity with death metal's heaviness from Lancashire.
Nashville's Ruinous Scourge bring a no-frills death metal approach to a city better known for country, channeling raw brutality and grim atmosphere since forming in 2019.
Melodic death metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2021. Named after the legendary Forest of Arden, their approach delivers melodic death metal from the city that birthed heavy metal.
Ruins of Humanity is a melodic death metal band from Vaasa on the west coast of Finland, active since 2016. The band delivers melodic death metal from the bilingual Ostrobothnian coast.
One-man doom/death metal project created by Bruno Zr in Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2019. The debut album Isolation was released in December 2020 and contains five tracks, including 'The Ward Pt.1,' which addresses the psychiatric hospital atrocities committed in Barbacena from the 1960s through the 1980s — an event documented in Daniela Arbex's book and sometimes called the 'Brazilian Holocaust,' in which more than 60,000 people died.
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