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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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Death metal band from Santa Fe, New Mexico, formed in 2018, delivering raw and uncompromising death metal from one of the Southwest's more unlikely metal hotbeds.
Strength of Supremacy pulverize with brutal death metal from Minsk, dealing in guttural vocals, relentless blast beats, and slam-influenced breakdowns. Their approach to extremity is uncompromising and visceral, rooted in the global brutal death metal underground.
Painesville, Ohio death/thrash metal and hardcore crossover band formed in 2024, combining the extremity of death metal and thrash with the raw, confrontational energy of hardcore punk.
Poway, California thrash and death metal band formed in 2023, blending the speed and technical riffing of thrash with the heavier, more brutal textures of death metal.
Chicago, Illinois band formed in 2019 operating across death, thrash, and doom metal, drawing on all three traditions to create a multi-textured sound that shifts from blasting aggression to slow, crushing heaviness.
Denver, Colorado brutal death metal band formed in 2023, delivering the hyper-technical riffing, guttural vocals, and percussive brutality at the core of the brutal death metal style.
Strigaskór Nr. 42 deal in death metal from the Reykjavik/Kópavogur area since 2013. Their enigmatic, numbered name reflects the Icelandic scene's tendency toward the mysterious and unconventional.
Strigiform deliver avant-garde black and death metal from an undisclosed Italian location since 2009. Named for the owl order, their nocturnal-predator identity suits compositions of hunting, calculated extremity.
Strike Back deliver death and thrash metal from the German underground, combining extreme metal's brutality with aggressive velocity. Active since 2015, they bring retaliatory force to the German extreme scene.
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