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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Seuche ("Plague") deal in black/death metal from Bavaria, channeling pestilential themes through extreme metal aggression. Their name perfectly suits the virulent intensity of their sound.
Seven Daily Sins deliver technically demanding progressive death metal out of Minsk, layering complex time signatures and intricate guitar work over crushing heaviness. Their approach favors precision and compositional ambition, pushing the boundaries of extreme metal with mathematical intensity.
Banska Bystrica's Seven Painful pair death and thrash metal from the central Slovak city since 2017. Their name referencing the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary and origins in the heart of Slovakia channel religious suffering into compositions of dual-genre aggression.
Combining neoclassical precision with technical death metal ferocity, Seven Works of Mercy formed in Grenoble in 2024 and takes its name from the Caravaggio masterwork. Their compositional approach interweaves baroque ornamentation with blast beats and guttural vocals.
Santa Barbara, California's Seventh Circle occupy a darkly syncretic extreme metal space, weaving together the bleakness of black metal, the heaviness of death metal, and the grinding weight of doom into a single suffocating whole. Active since 2008, they've developed a reputation for uncompromising, multi-dimensional heaviness that refuses easy categorization.
Multi-genre extreme metal band from Tielt in West Flanders, active since 2008, blending black metal, death metal, grindcore, and crust punk into a volatile sonic cocktail. Their stylistic range reflects an uncompromising approach to extreme music that refuses genre boundaries.
One of the longer-running death metal acts in the Minneapolis area, Brooklyn Park's Seventh Gate have been active since 1998 — long enough to have lived through the genre's many shifts while remaining committed to a hard-hitting, traditionally rooted death metal sound. Their longevity speaks to a band that has outlasted trends by staying true to the fundamentals.
Varberg's Seventh Sight deliver death metal from the Halland coast since 2021. Their supernatural-perception name channels extrasensory awareness into compositions of Atlantic-coast extremity.
Sacramento's Sever Dismember have been delivering some of California's most punishing brutal death metal since 2012, with a name that telegraphs exactly what they're offering: relentless, surgical violence rendered in blasting percussion and gore-soaked riff torrents. They occupy the most extreme end of the Sacramento underground, where brutality is a competitive sport.
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