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The Florentine Camerata is a technical death/groove metal band from the Plymouth/Torbay area of Devon, active since 2014. Named after the Renaissance-era Florentine intellectual circle, they bring an unusually cerebral approach to technical and groove-oriented death metal.
Devastating Progressive Death Metal from Dallas.
Out of Ellenville in New York's Hudson Valley, The Gods Themselves formed in 2014 as a three-way collision of death, black, and thrash metal — a combination they wear with an aggressive, unpolished intensity rather than the clinical precision that genre-blending can sometimes produce. The name, borrowed from the Asimov novel, hints at ambitions beyond the regional underground they emerged from. Their sound pulls in multiple directions at once without ever feeling like a compromise between them.
New Orleans has produced an outsized share of American heavy music, and The Great Void fit naturally into that lineage while staking out their own ground in the overlap between death metal and deathcore since forming in 2018. Their sound carries the brutality and low-end density the city's metal tradition demands, filtered through the modern deathcore appetite for structural breakdowns and sheer sonic tonnage. They're among the more punishing acts to come out of a city where the bar for heaviness is already set high.
Phoenix's The Grimm Riffer arrived in 2024 with a death metal and hardcore crossover sound that fits squarely into the desert city's history of producing bands that run hot and hit hard. The name announces their priorities without irony — riff-first, relentless, with hardcore's directness keeping the death metal from getting too labyrinthine. As a newly formed act they're still establishing themselves, but Phoenix's active extreme music scene gives them plenty of room to develop.
Grindcore band from Brasília formed in 2014 by members of DFC, Violator, and NW77. Their debut album I Spit on Your God, a 31-track, 29-minute record, was recorded at GrindHouse Studio in 2016 and released in 2017 on Rip Roaring Shit Storm Records as a cassette limited to 50 copies. The band also released the 7" EP Romantic Baphomet in 2016, hand-numbered and limited to 66 copies.
The HAARP Machine is a technical death/progressive metal/metalcore band from London, formed in 2020. Their name references conspiracy theories about weather modification technology, and their music delivers similarly otherworldly technical precision and progressive complexity.
The Hanged from Vaiano in Tuscany deliver death metal named after the tarot card of sacrifice and suspension since 2019. Their Tuscan hills setting channels the inverted wisdom of the hanged man through brutal compositions.
The Harbinger is a melodic death/doom metal band from Kouvola, Finland, formed in 2019. They blend melodic death metal's harmonies with doom's crushing sorrow.
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