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Death, doom, and sludge metal band from Gliwice, Poland emerging in 2025. Weedvoid merges the heaviest extreme metal subgenres into a crushing triple-genre assault from the Upper Silesian industrial basin.
Brooklyn's Weightlessness have been combining doom and death metal since 2014 in the dense, eclectic crucible that New York's underground provides. Their sound leans into the death-doom tradition's love of contrast — the crush of doom, the precision of death, the grief that lives between them — with a Brooklyn sourness that keeps it from ever becoming merely atmospheric. Slow, dark, and specific to the place that made them.
Death and groove metal band from Wondelgem, Belgium formed in 2018. Welkin fuses the heaviness of death metal with the rhythmic punch of groove metal, creating a hard-hitting Belgian take on extreme metal.
Denver's Well of Sacrifice have been mining progressive death metal since 2018, bringing a compositional discipline to extreme music that the Denver scene has increasingly fostered as it has matured. They build death metal that thinks about where it is going — structure and technicality in service of emotional impact rather than as ends in themselves. One of Denver's more serious contributions to the intersection of brutality and craft.
Black/death metal and deathcore band from Mannheim, Germany active since 2006. Weltenbrand merges the blast-beat intensity of black and death metal with deathcore's crushing breakdowns from the Rhine-Neckar region.
Death metal band from Oberhausen, Germany formed in 2016. Went Blank delivers direct, heavy death metal from the industrial Ruhr region of western Germany.
Melodic death and groove metal band from Lahti, Finland formed in 2020. Weren fuses the melodic power of Finnish death metal with groove metal's rhythmic punch from the industrial city of southern Finland.
Heavy Melodic Death Metal out of Texas.
Minnesota's West Coast Incident formed in 2023, their name carrying an ironic geographic displacement that suits a band playing death and sludge metal far from either coast. Their hybrid of death metal's aggression and sludge metal's crawling density is well-suited to the brutal Minnesota winters that the Twin Cities underground has always converted into heavy music. Strange name, straightforward devastation.
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