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Architects Of A New Weave (Deluxe Album) (2026)
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Fort Lauderdale death metal stalwarts with roots going back to 2002, part of the fertile South Florida scene that has produced some of the most punishing extremity in American metal history.
Dzerzhinsk's Sickrites pair black and death metal from the chemical-industry city since 2010. Their diseased-ritual name and toxic-industrial origins channel the ceremony of illness into compositions of dual-genre extremity.
Las Vegas progressive death/thrash act formed in 2017, weaving together technical complexity, thrashy aggression, and death metal weight into an ambitious and ever-shifting sound.
Bay Area death metal outfit active since 2004, forged in the same Northern California scene that gave birth to thrash and carrying on its legacy with brutal, technically informed aggression.
Thrash/death/grindcore band from São Paulo, active from the early 2000s until splitting up. The band released the 14-track full-length Traitors Execution in December 2002 on Hate Storm Records.
Ontario, California death metal band formed in 2018, bringing Inland Empire grit to the genre with a blunt, punishing approach rooted in the classic death metal tradition.
Brutal Technical / Experimental Death Metal from Modesto, California (early); New Braunfels, Texas (later).
New Jersey death metal act formed in 2016, known for a prolific output of cavernous, riff-dense material that draws from the most primitive and war-obsessed currents of the genre.
Death/grind band from Fortaleza, Ceará, formed in 1997 by Bruno Gabai (vocals, guitar, drums) and George Frizzo (bass). The duo has released six records across nearly three decades, including Subversive By Nature (2003) on Encore Records in Brazil — later picked up by Karmageddon Media in Europe and Candlelight Records in the US — Deathmocracy (2009), Animalism (2013), and Medieval Trauma (2022), a split with Guro.
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