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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Miami, Florida death metal band Spread the Shadows formed in 2021, operating within the South Florida extreme metal tradition with a straightforward commitment to brutal, unadorned death metal.
Portland, Oregon's Spume have played slam and brutal death metal since 2017, contributing to the Pacific Northwest's extreme metal community with dense, suffocating heaviness and bone-crushing rhythmic assault.
Las Vegas, Nevada death metal band Spun in Darkness have been active since 2010, forging a persistent presence in the Southwest extreme metal underground with straightforward, punishing death metal.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Squalor have played death metal and grindcore since 2010, merging the brutality of both genres into a relentlessly abrasive sound rooted in the mid-Atlantic underground.
California death metal band Squelch formed in 2024, operating within the state's vast and varied extreme metal tradition with a focus on straightforward, unadorned death metal brutality.
Fort Wayne, Indiana brutal death metal act Squelching formed in 2020, bringing the genre's signature hyper-compressed heaviness and guttural extremity to a city with a small but dedicated extreme metal following.
Stabbed is a Long Island, New York death metal and grindcore band formed in 2016, fusing the blasting ferocity of grindcore with the surgical brutality of death metal.
Stabbed in the Face is a Detroit, Michigan death metal and grindcore band formed in 2015, channeling the city's long tradition of extreme music into short, violent bursts of gore-drenched brutality.
Austin brutal death metal signed to Century Media. One of the fastest-rising new Texas death metal acts.
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