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New York City's The Wicked Exorcist Ritual deal in unadorned, rotten death metal with an occult and ritualistic character, embracing the genre's most primitive and suffocating qualities since their formation in 2020.
Heavy Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore out of Texas.
The World You Wanted from Munich merge progressive death metal's technical ambition with groove metal's rhythmic power, creating a dystopian commentary on the world humanity has built since 2020. Their socially conscious name frames compositions that alternate between intellectual complexity and visceral aggression.
Heavy Symphonic / Melodic Death Metal from Houston.
Named after the cartilage at the base of the sternum, Denver's The Xiphoid Process have been crafting death/doom metal since 2010, pairing the crushing slow churn of doom with the morbid heaviness of death metal. Their Colorado roots lend a desolate, high-altitude atmosphere to their glacially paced material.
Boston's The Year of Our Lord have worked melodic death metal territory since 2009, bringing a tightly arranged, European-influenced sound to the New England underground. Their longevity in a city not typically associated with the genre speaks to a dedicated fanbase and consistent output over more than a decade.
The YTriple Corporation from Madrid deliver melodic death metal with a corporate-satirical edge suggested by their business-inspired name since 2012. Their compositions pair Gothenburg-style melodicism with lyrical themes that critique the machinery of modern capitalism.
Los Angeles technical death metal outfit The Zenith Passage traffic in hyper-precise, clinically complex arrangements that pit brutal aggression against intricate instrumental interplay, active since 2018. They represent LA's growing technical death metal contingent, drawing comparisons to the genre's most demanding practitioners.
The Zeronaut from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria craft melodic death metal from the Canary Islands, exploring the void as cosmic navigators since 2012. Their unique Atlantic archipelago origin — closer to Africa than mainland Europe — lends an isolated, otherworldly quality to their melodic extremity.
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