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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Soa deal in death and groove metal from the Basque fishing village of Mutriku, combining extreme aggression with rhythmic heaviness from the Bay of Biscay coast. Formed in 2021, they bring coastal Basque intensity to the Spanish extreme scene.
Saint Petersburg's SOAH deliver death metal from the cultural capital since 2022. Their terse acronym and imperial-city origins channel concentrated aggression into compositions of focused extremity.
Los Angeles experimental grindcore and death metal act formed in 2016, pushing extreme metal into unpredictable territory through unconventional song structures and noise-driven abrasion.
Soar Beyond blend melodic death metal with groove metal from Auenwald in Baden-Wurttemberg, combining Scandinavian melodeath's harmonic sophistication with groove's rhythmic punch. Active since 2013, they bring uplifting intensity to the Swabian countryside.
California brutal/technical death metal band formed in 2022, taking their name from the Egyptian crocodile deity and channeling that ferocity into precisely executed, crushing extremity.
New Jersey death/black metal band formed in 2014, combining the brutality of death metal with black metal's misanthropic darkness in the spirit of the state's longstanding extreme metal underground.
New York death metal and hardcore band formed in 2017, combining the guttural violence of death metal with the antagonistic energy of hardcore punk in a deliberately provocative package.
Newark, Delaware brutal death metal and deathcore band formed in 2016, whose unassuming name belies a crushing sonic attack rooted in the extremity of East Coast underground death metal.
Vasteras' Soddus pair melodic groove and death metal from the Vastmanland capital since 2024. Their enigmatic name and central Swedish origins channel undisclosed meaning into freshly-minted compositions of rhythmically driven intensity.
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