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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Technical death metal and deathcore band from Málaga, Spain active since 2013. Wasting the Genesis fuses intricate technical death metal with deathcore's punishing breakdowns, delivering precision-driven extremity from Andalusia.
Symphonic, electronic, and melodic death metal band from Rostov-on-Don, Russia active since 2016. Wauld Danz fuses orchestral grandeur and electronic textures with melodic death metal from southern Russia.
Death metal and grindcore band from Budapest, Hungary emerging in 2025. Ways of Doom blends death metal's heaviness with grindcore's explosive brevity from the Hungarian capital.
Death metal band from Skanderborg, Denmark formed in 2015, delivering intense and relentless death metal through classic Marshall amplification with vocals ranging from abysmal growls to rotten screams. Their 2018 album Soil Organic Matter was produced at Dead Rat Studio in Aarhus and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Out of Kendall Park, New Jersey since 2009, We All Have Day Jobs bring a sardonic self-awareness to their deathcore that is written right into the name — extreme music made by people living ordinary lives who happen to need to play brutally heavy music to survive them. Over fifteen years of operation, they have earned their place in the New Jersey underground with a commitment to the form that outlasts most bands who start with more fanfare. The deathcore is serious even when the name is not.
Grindcore and death metal band from Cagliari, Sardinia active since 2011. We Are Building Ruins delivers explosive extreme metal from the Mediterranean island with over a decade of grindcore fury.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire, England active since 2014. We Are Tyrants blends Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal with modern metalcore energy from the East Midlands.
Brutal death metal band from Omsk, Russia active since 2011. Weakness delivers punishing brutality from the West Siberian city on the Irtysh River.
Founded in 2003 by Vetis Monarch in Calgary, Alberta, Weapon pursued a lethal synthesis of black and death metal rooted in occult and left-hand path philosophy. After early recordings made partly in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the band relocated to Edmonton and signed with Relapse Records, releasing the full-length From the Devil's Tomb (2010) and Embers and Revelations (2012) before disbanding in 2013. Their controlled aggression and esoteric conceptual framework set them apart from their Canadian peers.
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