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Fertile Green (2012)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Wichita, Kansas band formed in 2019 that evolved from deathcore roots into a symphonic and melodic death metal sound, incorporating orchestral elements and sweeping melodic structures alongside extreme metal aggression.
Salt Lake City death metal and hardcore hybrid formed in 2021, fusing the brutality of death metal with the directness and physicality of hardcore punk.
Suffocating Sight blend melodic thrash, death metal, and metalcore from the North Sea port of Cuxhaven, creating a multi-genre assault from the Lower Saxon coast. Formed in 2020, they bring asphyxiating intensity to the maritime metal scene.
Long Island, New York titans of brutal and technical death metal, Suffocation are widely regarded as one of the most influential bands in the genre's history, with seminal records like Effigy of the Forgotten helping define the sound of technical death metal in the early 1990s and beyond.
Old school death metal band formed in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, in November 2014 by guitarist Rafael JL Teles and vocalist/bassist Anderson Echeverria. They released the EP Necro Suggillation Tantric Spawn in 2016 and followed it with the debut full-length Revenge of the Monarch, the Kingdoom Cult through the Mexican label Iron Blood and Death Corporation in January 2019.
San Diego death metal band formed in 2022, contributing to the active Southern California extreme metal underground with a straightforward approach to the genre.
SuicidalGrind pair power and death metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2023. Their provocative compound name channels the paradox of self-destructive extremity into compositions that unexpectedly merge two distant subgenres.
Tempe, Arizona black/death metal and crust band formed in 2009, fusing the raw hostility of crust punk with black and death metal extremity in the tradition of the American bestial underground.
Orlando black/death metal and grindcore band formed in 2013, blending the chaos of grindcore with the darkness of black and death metal into a relentlessly aggressive extreme metal assault.
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