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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Snowgarden craft melodic death metal from Helsinki, combining Scandinavian melodeath with the frost-flower imagery their winter-garden name suggests. Active since 2016, they bring crystalline melody to the Finnish capital.
Albuquerque brutal death metal and grindcore act formed in 2020, delivering relentlessly punishing extremity rooted in the Southwest underground scene.
San Francisco band founded in 2020 that fuses brutal death metal with hardcore aggression, channeling the Bay Area's long tradition of punishing crossover extremity.
Detroit doom/death metal project formed in 2025, pairing the Motor City's industrialized heaviness with the slow, sepulchral weight of the doom-death tradition.
Snaekes deal in death metal from Copenhagen, their deliberately archaic spelling adding a serpentine quality to their Danish capital brutality. Formed in 2024, they bring venomous intensity to the Scandinavian death metal scene.
Snet practice death metal from Prague, delivering grim, heavy compositions from the heart of the Czech capital's extreme metal underground. Formed in 2019, they represent the ongoing vitality of Prague's death metal scene.
Silver Spring death/thrash metal band formed in 2018, combining the intensity of old-school thrash with the brutality of death metal in the tradition of the mid-Atlantic underground.
Davenport, Iowa act formed in 2014 that melds thrash and death metal with hardcore aggression, delivering a crossover-inflected assault shaped by the Midwest's DIY underground.
Austrian thrash metal band from Graz who released their debut full-length "Sichart" in 2013, an eight-track assault pressed as a limited edition of 250 CDs. Their sound blends death and thrash metal with an uncompromising, no-frills approach that captures the raw energy of their live performances.
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