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The Age Of Entitlement (2019)
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rosemary (2023)
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L'Envol (2024)
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Sinworks blend death metal with metalcore from Berlin, combining extreme metal's brutality with the rhythmic punch of modern heavy music. Active since 2013, they draw from the German capital's vast and diverse metal ecosystem.
Sions Funeral deliver melodic death metal from Neheim in the Sauerland, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with their own Westphalian character. Active since 2012, they bring emotional intensity and harmonic sophistication to the North Rhine-Westphalia extreme scene.
Dallas, Texas's Siphoned Life emerged in 2022 playing progressive death metal, joining a city with a strong technical metal tradition and bringing compositional complexity and shifting dynamics to their brand of extreme heaviness.
A California atmospheric black/death metal act active since 2015, Sire melds the sweeping, post-influenced atmospherics of atmospheric black metal with the crushing brutality of death metal, crafting dense and layered sonic environments.
New York's Sire Languish is one of the newest acts in this index, formed in 2025, pushing experimental black and death metal into unconventional territory with an approach that resists genre rigidity from the outset.
Hewitt, New Jersey's Sirens formed in 2020 working across metalcore, deathcore, and death metal, combining breakdown-driven aggression with increasingly extreme sonic territory and reflecting the evolution of the East Coast heavy music scene.
Los Angeles outfit formed in 2014 who fuse the twin-guitar melodicism of Scandinavian death metal with power metal's soaring sensibility, resulting in music that is both technically demanding and built around hooky, anthemic structures. Their sound draws equally from In Flames-era melodeath and the more grandiose end of American power metal.
Spokane, Washington band formed in 2020 operating in the space between melodic black metal and outright death metal, combining riff-driven aggression with the atmospheric sweep that characterizes the Pacific Northwest's underground black metal scene. Their sound is dense and forward-moving, leaning on melodic guitar leads to cut through the harshness.
Pittsburgh band formed in 2011 who slam together stoner metal's loping, fuzz-saturated grooves with thrash aggression and a death 'n' roll swagger, landing somewhere between Electric Wizard and a swampier Entombed. Their Steel City roots come through in music that feels lived-in and deliberately heavy.
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