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The Krushers is a death/thrash metal band from Agrigento, Sicily, Italy, active since 2002. They combine thrash speed with death metal heaviness, delivering aggressive crossover metal from southern Sicily.
Formed in Kansas City in 2017, The Lantern Hill Nightmare traffic in the punishing intersection of death metal and deathcore, building walls of downtuned riffs over blast-beat assaults and guttural vocal extremes. Their Missouri roots ground them in a Midwest scene that prizes heaviness without pretense, and their output pushes the brutality of deathcore toward the more technical demands of straight death metal.
Hailing from the small town of Milton, New Hampshire, The Last King have been carving out a hybrid of melodic death metal and deathcore since 2015 — pairing Gothenburg-influenced guitar harmonies with the low-end breakdowns and rhythmic precision that define modern deathcore. The contrast between sweeping melodic passages and crushing heavy sections gives their music a cinematic tension.
The Last Winter is a black/death metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2013. They merge black metal's atmospheric darkness with death metal's crushing aggression.
The Lifeless is a death metal band from Genoa, Italy, formed in 2014. They deliver heavy, uncompromising death metal from the Ligurian port city.
The Lifted Veil is a black/death metal band from Mikkeli, Finland, formed in 2016. They combine the darkness of black metal with death metal's ferocity.
The Lump from Rennes deliver slam and brutal death metal with the tumorous, grotesque intensity their name demands since 2017. Their Breton capital base produces compositions as malformed and aggressive as the pathological growth they're named after.
The Machinist is an industrial black/death metal band from Manchester, formed in 2019. Their music melds the mechanical coldness of industrial metal with the extreme aggression of black and death metal, reflecting Manchester's industrial heritage through a sonic lens.
The Malum Process from Antibes on the French Riviera deliver slam, brutal death metal, and deathcore under a name meaning 'the evil process' since 2020. Their sun-drenched Côte d'Azur setting provides ironic contrast to their grotesque sonic violence.
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