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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Extreme Power Metal (2019)
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rosemary (2023)
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The Trauma from Ahlen in Westphalia unleash thrash and death metal with the visceral impact their name demands since 2022. Their aggressive sound channels the intensity of physical and psychological shock through relentless riffing and punishing rhythms.
Devastating Death Metal from McKinney.
The Trousers is a melodic death metal band from Loimaa, Finland, active since 2009. They play melodic death metal from the rural southwestern Finnish countryside.
The Truck Experience from Kiel deliver death metal with the unstoppable momentum of their vehicular namesake, grinding through the Schleswig-Holstein scene since 2018. Their Baltic coast base provides an unlikely setting for their juggernaut approach to brutality.
A New York black/death metal project formed in 2018, The True Goat channels raw, ritualistic aggression with an underground ethos that favors darkness over accessibility. Their approach leans into the primitive, confrontational side of extreme metal with little concession to polish.
Muscatine, Iowa's The Unbecoming have been delivering straightforward death metal since 2013, keeping their focus on riff density and guttural intensity without dressing it up in atmosphere or technicality. They represent the no-frills end of Midwestern death metal.
The Unconfessed is an epic black/death metal band from Larissa, formed in 2025. Their music channels unspoken darkness through the dramatic scope of epic extreme metal from central Greece.
San Francisco's The Undying fuse symphonic orchestration with technical death metal brutality and deathcore breakdowns, a combination that has driven their sound since forming in 2011. Their music is uncompromising in its ambition, stacking complexity and cinematic scale into the same passages.
The Unrest from Southend-on-Sea deliver death metal and hardcore with the agitated, sleepless intensity their name demands since 2018. Their Essex seaside base adds restless coastal energy to their compositions.
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