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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Extreme Power Metal (2019)
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rosemary (2023)
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Second Sun craft psychedelic death/doom metal from the northern Finnish city of Oulu, building mind-bending compositions that blend cosmic psychedelia with crushing doom. Active since 2018, they bring hallucinatory heaviness to the Arctic-adjacent scene.
Death metal and hardcore band from Brasília, DF, formed around 1993. Their debut full-length Hell is Here — 13 tracks recorded in 2005 and mixed in 2006 — was launched at a release show at Blackout Bar in Brasília on November 1, 2008, alongside local acts Violator, Death Slam, and Cabrunco; the album includes a cover of "Stage" by English death metal band Benediction.
New York death metal outfit Secrecy have been carving out their corner of the underground since 2014, delivering the kind of dense, uncompromising brutality the state's metal scene has long been known for. Their approach favors heaviness over accessibility, rooting itself in the cavernous traditions of American death metal without apology.
Los Angeles avant-garde death metal project Secrelict emerged in 2023 with a mandate to push the genre past its conventional borders, blending dissonance, unconventional structures, and experimental textures into a distinctly modern form of extremity. The band's approach treats death metal as a starting point rather than a destination, fracturing familiar heaviness into something genuinely unsettling.
Secret Mutilation have been dealing in slam and brutal death metal from Chur since 2007, making them one of Switzerland's longest-running purveyors of guttural extremity. Their approach is unrelenting, favoring crushing breakdowns and inhuman vocals.
Deathcore band from Ljubuški, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2011, delivering crushing breakdowns and extreme vocal aggression from the heart of Herzegovina. Their presence underscores the growing reach of modern extreme metal subgenres in the Western Balkans.
Secrets of Separation play melodic death metal and metalcore from Valasske Mezirici, blending Scandinavian melodeath influences with modern breakdown-driven heaviness. Their Moravian roots place them in the heart of the Czech Republic's eastern metal scene.
Sectesy deal in death metal from Kolin, channeling raw aggression and morbid themes through their heavy compositions. Formed in 2019, they bring fresh brutality to the central Bohemian metal underground.
Fresh out of Huntington Beach, California, Secularis arrived in 2025 as one of the newest entries in the American black/death underground, combining the icy hostility of black metal with the visceral attack of death metal. Even at this early stage, the project signals a willingness to operate in the extremes where both genres converge most violently.
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