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Evidence (2023)
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German heavy/death metal band from Flensburg, formed in 2024. They merge traditional heavy metal power with death metal's guttural intensity from the far north.
French thrash/death metal band from Poitiers, formed in 2016. They deliver bestial thrash-death from the historic Aquitaine city.
Bestial Nuclear Atrocity is a Brazilian black/death metal band formed in 2022. They released "Holocausto Podre e Profano da Desolação" in September 2022, a recording mastered by Filipe Silva that places the band within Brazil's underground bestial black/death metal tradition.
Uncompromising death metal from Stockholm, active since 2020. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Bestial Profanation is an old school death metal band from San Antonio Oeste, Río Negro, Argentina, formed in 2021 by guitarist and vocalist Matias Carrasco alongside bassist Cristian Sarmiento, drummer Alexis Basanta, and rhythm guitarist Alexander Alonso. The band released the three-track EP Legion of the Undead in 2021, followed by their debut full-length Sanctuary of the Living Dead in January 2022 through Argentine label Putrid Records. Their sound draws on the rawness of Autopsy alongside Swedish and Floridian death metal influences.
Thrash metal outfit from Moscow (early); Prague, formed in 2023. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Spanish death/black metal band from Valencia, formed in 2023. They forge bestial death/black metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Finnish black/death metal project formed in 2025. They channel bestial siege-warfare black/death metal.
Krasnodar-based black metal act active since 2017, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Russian lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
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