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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Belgrade's Sakramentum merge black, death, and symphonic metal from the Serbian capital since 2020. Their Latin-sacrament name channels ritualistic devotion into compositions of multi-genre darkness.
Ruthless Melodic Black / Death Metal from Brownwood, Texas (early); Austin, Texas (later).
Sakrosankt practice death metal from Engelskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia, channeling raw aggression from the Bergisches Land region. Emerging in 2025, they represent the newest wave of German death metal.
Grindcore band from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, formed in 2019 by vocalist Vinicius Braga, guitarist Alice Vitoriano, bassist Marcos Correa, and drummer Linnu Rodrigues. The band released Somos Nós a Doença in 2021 and followed it with Ensaio Sobre a Má Vontade in June 2024, a 22-track album recorded at Quarto do Pânico studio in Manaus addressing capitalism, police violence, and life in the Amazon's largest city. The band split up after completing Ensaio Sobre a Má Vontade.
Tucson's Salent are a newly formed progressive thrash/death outfit drawing on the Southwest's history of technically inclined metal — music that values both aggression and complexity, where time signatures shift as naturally as the rhythm section locks in. Their progressive death/thrash approach promises a band willing to let songwriting sprawl as much as it punishes.
Sallimus deliver melodic death metal from Oulu, combining Scandinavian melodeath's harmonic sophistication with northern Finnish intensity. Emerging in 2025, they bring Arctic melodic extremity to the Finnish death metal landscape.
Progressive death metal from Dallas.
Salome deal in death metal from Gronau/Epe on the Dutch-German border, their biblical name contrasting with the genre's extreme sonic violence. Their border-town origins place them at the intersection of German and Dutch extreme metal traditions.
Gothenburg's Saltas pair death and doom metal from Sweden's metal capital since 2018. Their enigmatic name and West Coast origins channel concentrated duality into compositions of crushing, melodically aware heaviness.
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