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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Michigan grindcore and death metal band formed in 2025, blending the speed and aggression of grind with the sonic brutality of death metal in early-stage releases.
Canton, Ohio act founded in 2017 that fuses death metal, thrash, and hardcore into a raw, crossover-influenced style drawing from the Midwest's tradition of no-frills extreme aggression.
American slam and brutal death metal project active since 2019, specializing in the subgenre's signature low-register, percussive breakdowns and grotesque sonic extremity.
Stillburned deliver death and thrash metal from Kerava in the Helsinki metropolitan area, channeling the smoldering aftermath their name describes. Active since 2015, they bring residual fire to the Finnish extreme scene.
Raleigh, North Carolina death metal band formed in 2017, delivering straightforward, riff-driven death metal in the tradition of the genre's American roots.
Farmington, Missouri death metal band active since 2008, bringing uncompromising brutality to a part of the Midwest not typically associated with extreme metal.
Stirb ("Die") deliver melodic death/thrash metal from Kehl on the French-German border, channeling aggressive extremity with a blunt, one-word German imperative for a name. Formed in 2021, they bring Rhine-spanning intensity to the Baden metal scene.
New Philadelphia, Ohio act formed in 2023 that combines death metal, grindcore, and crossover thrash into a fast and abrasive style typical of the genre's more chaotic fringe.
Death/thrash metal band from the East Tyrolean town of Lienz, formed in 2019. Their crossover of death and thrash metal delivers aggressive, high-velocity extremity from one of Austria's most remote alpine regions.
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