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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Electronic death metal project from Oss, the Netherlands, active since 2014 and fusing electronic production with death metal's aggression. Their innovative approach blends digital textures with the genre's organic brutality.
Black and death metal band from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2017 and delivering filthy, uncompromising extremity. Their dual-genre approach fuses black metal's cold atmosphere with death metal's guttural aggression.
Melodic death metal band from Cremona in Lombardy, Italy, active since 2020. Their sound channels the Scandinavian melodeath tradition through an Italian sensibility, balancing melodic guitar harmonies with death metal aggression.
Experimental atmospheric metal from Fort Worth. Early material explored avant-garde thrash territory. Releases on Visceral Circuitry Records.
Savage Avant-garde Death Metal from Dallas, Texas / Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
Melodic death metal project from Spain, active since 2019, delivering the genre's characteristic blend of aggressive riffing and melodic guitar harmonies. Their stylized name reflects an artistic sensibility that extends beyond conventional melodic death metal presentation.
Unadorned is a progressive doom/death metal project from Ankara, Turkey, founded in 2025 and blending blackened melodic death metal with progressive structures under the banner of 'mystic brutality.' The project features Zachary Alder on vocals, guitar, and bass with Alister Reed on drums.
Unangel is a death/thrash metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, exploring the fast and melodic road of thrashy death metal with a broad sonic palette ranging from brutal to technical. Their EPs Amongst Cowards and Drunk on Hate showcase versatility, including tracks sung in Swedish like Tre Dagar I Morker.
Death and thrash metal band from Bergerac in the Dordogne region of France, active since 2015. Their sound merges death and thrash metal into a potent combination of speed and heaviness from rural southwestern France.
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