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Stockholm's Smothered deliver death metal from the Swedish capital since 2020. Their suffocation name channels the fatal denial of breath into compositions of capital-city extremity.
Smothered Sun is a Maine technical death metal and deathcore band formed in 2022, combining the intricate fretwork and time-signature complexity of technical death metal with the groove and breakdown dynamics of deathcore.
Tranas' Snaegr deliver death metal from the Smaland town since 2008. Their Old Norse-derived name and nearly two decades from the East Vetter valley have produced compositions of sustained, historically rooted extremity.
Formed in 2017 in Clifton, New Jersey, Snag tears through crossover thrash and death metal with a raw, pit-ready sound indebted equally to D.R.I. and early Morbid Angel.
Philadelphia death metal band formed in 2019, drawing on the city's storied extreme metal underground to craft dense, punishing material with an old-school sensibility.
Vienna-based melodic death metal outfit with metalcore leanings, Snatched Cord debuted in 2012 with the single "Focus," a five-and-a-half-minute track demonstrating their blend of melodic death metal hooks and modern metal dynamics. Their sound draws from the Scandinavian melodeath tradition filtered through a Viennese perspective.
Los Angeles sludge and death metal band formed in 2024, merging the caustic weight of death metal with sludge's slow, corrosive heaviness in the city's contemporary extreme underground.
Washington State death metal band formed in 2017, operating in the Pacific Northwest extreme metal underground with a focus on dense, technically oriented death metal.
Death metal band from Española, New Mexico, formed in 2018, contributing to the Southwest extreme metal scene with a raw, no-frills approach to the genre.
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