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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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Huntington Beach, California thrash metal band formed in 2017, rooted in the Southern California scene's tradition of high-energy, riff-driven aggression.
Philadelphia technical death metal band formed in 2021, pursuing a complex, compositionally ambitious approach to extreme metal rooted in the Philadelphia underground scene.
Subliminal Chaos deliver melodic death metal and metalcore from Seville, combining Scandinavian melodeath with modern heaviness from the Andalusian capital. Active since 2011, they bring subconscious disorder to the southern Spanish metal scene.
Terni's Subliminal Crusher blend death, melodic death, and thrash metal from Umbria since 2003. Over two decades, they have built a reputation for multi-genre aggression that hits beneath conscious defenses.
San Diego brutal death metal band formed in 2023, adding to Southern California's thriving extreme metal underground with punishing low-end heaviness and unrelenting aggression.
Inglewood, California death/thrash metal band formed in 2018, channeling the Southern California underground's appetite for speed and brutality through a hybrid of death and thrash influences.
Toledo, Ohio experimental and progressive death metal band formed in 2015, pushing the genre toward unconventional structures and sonic exploration while retaining death metal's core intensity.
SubOrbital craft technical death metal from Moers in the Lower Rhine region, building mathematically precise compositions from the North Rhine-Westphalia industrial landscape. Formed in 2022, they bring space-themed tech-death to the Ruhr periphery.
Subordination deliver melodic death and thrash metal from the Ostrobothnian town of Nivala, combining harmonic sophistication with aggressive velocity. Active since 2012, they bring obedient fury to the western Finnish scene.
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