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Transparent Lust is a death/doom metal band from Macerata/Urbania in the Marche region, formed in 2023. Their evocative name channels desire through the dark filter of death and doom metal.
Birmingham, Alabama's Trapaw have been pushing deathcore and death metal into brutal territory since 2013, fusing down-tuned guitar punishment with the bone-snapping breakdowns that define the Southeastern extreme metal underground.
Trapjaw is a thrash/death metal band from Bielefeld, Germany, formed in 2014. They combine thrash metal's speed with death metal's crushing brutality.
Newly formed in 2025, Atlanta's Trash Compactor bring a death/thrash hybrid that reflects the Georgia city's long tradition of extreme metal, applying modern brutality to the genre's classic bone-crushing template.
Jacksonville's Trash Panda occupy the brutal end of Florida's already ferocious death metal scene, merging deathcore breakdowns with slam-influenced brutality since 2016 under a name that belies the weight of their sound.
Spokane, Washington's Trashcasket have been digging up death metal since 2022, bringing the genre's grime and morbidity to eastern Washington's growing extreme metal underground.
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Traski from Tampere deliver melodic blackened death metal that merges the melodic traditions of Finnish extreme metal with blackened atmospheric intensity since 2018. Their compositions navigate the dark intersection of three genres from Finland's industrial heartland.
Death metal project from Nova Hartz, Rio Grande do Sul, founded by Luis D'llavechia on January 3, 2024. The band's self-titled debut album, a 12-track record addressing themes of war, politics, and religion, was released on January 12, 2024, with D'llavechia handling all composition and production duties.
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