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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Crushing Grindcore / Death Metal from Austin, Texas (early); Portland, Oregon (later).
Servator deliver death/thrash metal from Helmstedt on the former Inner German Border, channeling aggressive extremity from a town once divided between East and West. Active since 2010, their border-town origins lend a particular edge to their dual-genre attack.
Served Cold play metalcore and deathcore from Schongau in the Bavarian Alps, combining punishing breakdowns with the scenic backdrop of the Lech Valley. Formed in 2022, they bring modern heaviness to one of Upper Bavaria's most picturesque regions.
Service Geriatrie burst onto the French brutal death metal scene in 2023 with a darkly humorous name belying genuinely punishing sonic output. Their blasting, guttural approach sits firmly within the gore-obsessed end of the death metal spectrum.
Los Angeles-based Servile Conceptions blend blackened ferocity with death metal's brutality, threading cold, dissonant tremolo lines through a foundation of aggressive, mid-paced heaviness. Active since 2013, they occupy the dark and confrontational space where LA's underground extreme metal scene intersects with the philosophical blackness of the genre's European roots.
Death metal and hardcore band from Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, formed in 2022 by Luiz Magrão (bass), Fabricio Roder (drums), Edir Manzano (guitar), and Carlão Eckert (vocals), with a stated aim of strengthening the Cuiabá underground scene. They released the EP HATE in 2025 and the single "Black Mirror," whose music video was featured on Hardcore Worldwide in August 2024.
Set Up to Fail deliver melodic death metal from the Arctic city of Rovaniemi, combining Scandinavian melodeath's harmonic sophistication with the doomed inevitability their name suggests. Active since 2013, they bring Arctic Circle intensity to the Finnish melodeath landscape.
Sethnefer craft melodic doom/death metal and rock from Oldenburg, blending the emotional weight of doom with melodic accessibility since 2006. Their Egyptian-mythology-inspired name adds an exotic dimension to their North German sound.
Sethqen channel doom/death metal from Dresden, building ponderous, heavy compositions from the Saxon capital. Active since 2012, they bring the crushing deliberation of doom/death to one of eastern Germany's most culturally rich cities.
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