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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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Houston, Texas symphonic death metal band formed in 2023, pairing orchestral grandeur with death metal brutality in a style that reflects the ambitious scope of bands like Septicflesh and Fleshgod Apocalypse.
Melodic black/death metal project from Owensville, Indiana, formed in 2017, weaving sweeping melodic leads and tremolo-picked riffs across a framework drawn from both Scandinavian melodic black metal and death metal.
Black/death metal band from Hawthorne, California, formed in 2012, combining the rawness of black metal with the brutality of death metal in the tradition of South Bay extreme metal.
Symposion deal in death metal from Copenhagen, their name (from the Greek symposium, a drinking party with philosophical discussion) adding intellectual weight to their extreme output. Active since 2013, they bring philosophical brutality to the Danish death metal landscape.
Technical death metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2013, pursuing the intricate, precision-focused end of the genre with complex arrangements and demanding instrumental execution.
Portland, Oregon doom/death metal band formed in 2013, channeling the slow, oppressive weight of death-doom in a Pacific Northwest scene better known for its black metal output.
Chicago progressive/technical death metal band formed in 2025, combining the labyrinthine song structures of progressive metal with the unrelenting technicality of the modern tech-death tradition.
Black metal project from New Jersey, formed in 2013, operating in the raw and atmospheric end of the genre with a decidedly underground approach.
Sundsvall's Syn:drom deliver death metal from the Norrland coastal city since 2010. Their colon-punctuated syndrome name channels the clinical classification of pathological patterns into over a decade of compositions from northern Sweden.
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