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The Bestiary (2025)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Melodic death metal band from Vaasa, Finland formed in 2019. Wolftopia channels the melodic tradition of Finnish death metal from the bilingual coastal city on the Gulf of Bothnia.
Ruthless Melodic Death Metal from Austin.
Phoenix's Wolves of Nihil work the intersection of death metal brutality and melodic death metal craft, threading hooks through the carnage without softening the blow. Formed in 2018 in the desert Southwest, they bring a sun-scorched intensity to a style that rewards both aggression and songwriting ambition. Their music hits with the directness of pure death metal while leaving room for the kind of melodic memorability that keeps you coming back.
Heavy Death Metal / Hardcore out of Texas.
Death metal band from Sala, Sweden active since the early 1990s and reformed in 2020. Wombbath is a veteran Swedish death metal act from the original Stockholm scene, delivering crushing old-school death metal.
Death metal band from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia active since 2014. Wombripper delivers visceral, old-school death metal from the Volga-Oka confluence city.
Womp Rat — whose name winks at a certain moisture farmer from Tatooine — play death metal with a sense of grim humor that doesn't soften the violence of the music. Formed in 2017, they've staked out space in the underground death metal world with riffs that hit with the casual brutality the genre demands. The name suggests a band that takes the music seriously without taking themselves too seriously.
Funeral doom and death metal band from Öhringen, Germany formed in 2021. Woods of Grief crafts slow, oppressive compositions that merge the crushing weight of funeral doom with death metal's guttural ferocity.
Brutal death metal and grindcore band from Cologne/Leverkusen, Germany active since 2003. World Downfall combines the relentless blast beats of grindcore with brutal death metal's guttural extremity across over two decades of underground activity.
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