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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Death metal band from Freeport, Illinois, formed in 2024, channeling classic death metal brutality with a name that evokes the decomposition-themed imagery central to the genre.
Tomaszów Mazowiecki's Symbolical deliver death metal from the central Polish textile town since 2015. Their representational name and industrial-town origins channel the symbols of mortality into compositions of focused extremity.
Stockton, California act formed in 2011 that blends technical and melodic death metal, combining intricate fretwork with the harmonic sensibilities of the Gothenburg school to produce a sophisticated and aggressive sound.
Tarnowskie Góry's Symetgal deliver death metal from the Upper Silesian town since 2019. Their enigmatic name and former silver-mining origins channel subterranean mystery into compositions of focused aggression.
Heavy metal band from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, formed in 2017, rooted in traditional metal song craft and occupying a region of Pennsylvania with a long history of working-class rock and metal.
Death/thrash metal band from Rome, New York, formed in 2018, fusing thrash metal's picking-hand aggression with death metal's low-end brutality and vocal extremity in the tradition of the genre's hybrid practitioners.
Budapest's Symmetry of the Void blend death and melodic death metal with a name that finds order in emptiness since 2016. Their philosophical approach yields compositions that balance structural precision with crushing weight.
Symphonic black/death metal band from João Pessoa, Paraíba, formed in 2011 with a lineup including vocalist Adjair França, guitarists Felipe Headley and Luiz Eduardo Viana, keyboardist Magno Rocha, bassist André Toledo, and drummer Jorge Augusto. The band released their debut full-length, Philosophy of Symmetry, on April 21, 2015, produced, mixed, and mastered by Victor Hugo Targino.
Brutal death metal band from Columbus, Ohio, formed in 2025, applying the goregrind-adjacent brutal death aesthetic — surgical terminology in name, relentless sonic violence in practice.
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