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Sisters of Suffocation is an all-female death metal band from Eindhoven, Netherlands, founded in 2014 by vocalist Els Prins and guitarist Simone van Straten with the explicit goal of building a women-fronted extreme metal act. The band released their debut EP Brutal Queen independently in 2016, followed by their full-length Anthology of Curiosities (2017) and Humans Are Broken (2019) on Napalm Records. Their straightforward death metal approach, free of novelty or genre dilution, earned them performances at major European festivals alongside recognition as one of the more authentic acts to emerge from the Dutch extreme metal underground in the 2010s.
Sisyfos deal in death metal from the Arctic city of Rovaniemi, their mythological name (the man condemned to roll a boulder eternally) reflecting the relentless, repetitive crushing of their sound. Formed in 2019, they bring Sisyphean extremity to Lapland.
Portland, Oregon act formed in 2012 that merges the mechanical rhythmic precision of djent with the crushing weight of deathcore and metalcore, built around polyrhythmic chugging and technical breakdowns. The "Sisyphean" in their name feels earned — their music is dense, cyclical, and relentlessly uncompromising.
Charleston, South Carolina death metal and grindcore band active since 2009, delivering short, punishing blasts of savagery in the tradition of Southern underground extremity. Their name carries a sardonic religious undertone that suits the irreverent violence of grind.
Death metal/hardcore crossover band from Zonhoven in Belgian Limburg, formed in 2023. Their fusion of death metal brutality and hardcore aggression creates a punishing hybrid rooted in the extreme underground of the Flemish countryside.
Punishing Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore out of Texas.
Orange County, California melodic death metal band with roots going back to 2004, giving them over two decades in a scene that has seen plenty of turnover. Their melodic death approach is steeped in the Gothenburg tradition, applying it to the sun-baked Southern California underground.
St. Louis band formed in 2023 that drags death metal into sludge metal's murky, slow-burning territory, resulting in music that is both punishing and dense with atmosphere. As a very new act out of a city with a strong underground metal tradition, they arrive with an already fully-formed sense of the crushing and the heavy.
Seattle deathcore and death metal band formed in 2012, drawing from the Pacific Northwest's fertile extreme metal underground to craft music built on technical brutality and the chugging intensity that defines deathcore at its most unrelenting. Over a decade in, they are a fixture of the Seattle underground.
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