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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Vasteras' Suffer the Pain pair death metal and crust punk from the Vastmanland capital since 2012. Over a decade of channeling the endurance of agony into compositions that merge extremity with punk urgency.
Laredo, Texas outfit formed in 2012 that fuses progressive sensibilities with death-doom, crafting dense, slow-burning compositions that draw equally from melodic death metal and oppressive doom atmospheres.
Springfield, Illinois death metal band formed in 2013, playing unadorned, aggressive death metal rooted in the classic American tradition of the genre.
Indiana brutal death metal and slam act formed in 2017, merging the pummeling groove of slam death metal with hardcore aggression for a particularly visceral form of extreme music.
Suffering Down channel black/death metal from the Basque town of Loiu near Bilbao, exploring themes of descent and suffering through extreme compositions. Formed in 2020, they bring Basque darkness to the Spanish extreme underground.
Originating in Forest Lake, Minnesota, Suffering Hour is an avant-garde black/death metal band formed in 2017 known for their dissonant, labyrinthine compositions and refusal to adhere to genre conventions, earning widespread acclaim in the underground with releases like The Cyclic Reckoning.
Toledo, Ohio progressive death metal band formed in 2024, pursuing technically ambitious compositions that push the boundaries of conventional death metal.
Wichita, Kansas band formed in 2019 that evolved from deathcore roots into a symphonic and melodic death metal sound, incorporating orchestral elements and sweeping melodic structures alongside extreme metal aggression.
Salt Lake City death metal and hardcore hybrid formed in 2021, fusing the brutality of death metal with the directness and physicality of hardcore punk.
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