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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Philadelphia's Urethra Driller emerged in 2021 playing brutal death metal and goregrind with all the tasteful restraint their name suggests — which is to say, none. Punishingly loud, deliberately offensive, and technically precise in their ugliness.
San Francisco's Urethral specialize in the slam death metal subgenre, building their sound around bone-crushing breakdowns and guttural extremity since 2013. Their Bay Area roots give them a certain grim urban edge that distinguishes them from their Midwest and Southeast counterparts.
Formed in San Luis Obispo, California in 2021, Urine Garden combine brutal death metal and goregrind in the tradition of the most deliberately repulsive corner of extreme music. Crude, fast, and precisely as disgusting as intended.
Melodic death metal band from Svendborg on the Danish island of Funen, active since 2020. Their sound channels the Gothenburg-influenced melodic death metal tradition through a Danish lens, balancing melodic guitar harmonies with death metal's guttural intensity.
Black and death metal band from Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany, founded in 2009 and reflecting on psychology confronted with absolutism, theism, and extreme solitude. Their 2014 album Decay of a Kingdom, a re-recording of their 2010 demo, delivers fast, heavy, and dark sounds without bowing to any single category.
Urskog is a Swedish death/thrash/sludge metal band from Stockholm, active since 2017 with releases including the cassette Evig Vinter and the 7-inch Sprider Sporer. The project's name, meaning 'primeval forest' in Swedish, reflects their connection to dark Nordic folk imagery.
Long-running Latvian extreme metal act from Riga, evolving from black metal origins toward a black-death hybrid since 2003. Over two decades of activity, they have become one of the most enduring forces in the Latvian extreme metal underground.
Death and doom metal band from Nordland in northern Norway, active since 2012. Their Arctic Norwegian origins and bear-inspired name lend a massive, primal quality to their death-doom sound.
Toulouse-based project spanning brutal death metal and neofolk/ambient, active since 2014, named after the fearsome North American grizzly bear. Their dual identity bridges extreme metal's most brutal end with the contemplative beauty of neofolk.
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