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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Progressive death metal band from Finland, formed in 2016. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity.
Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Lausanne, Switzerland, formed in 2021. They channel a punishing, blast-beat-driven assault that merges grind intensity with guttural death metal extremity.
Relentless Experimental Death / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Melodic death metal band from the San Diego area, active since 2012 and part of the South Bay scene that has long cultivated both heavy and melodic extremes.
Los Angeles progressive/technical death metal outfit active since the mid-2010s, weaving complex rhythmic structures and melodic density into a forward-thinking extreme metal framework.
Black/death metal act from the Albany, New York area, blending corrosive blackened riffing with death metal brutality since 2015.
Melodic death metal band from Funchal, the capital of Madeira island in the Atlantic, active since 2012. Calamity Islet delivers island-forged extreme metal from Portugal's most remote outpost.
Los Angeles death metal project active around 2015, brief and unsigned, leaving no recorded output before splitting up.
Black-death metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2021. They channel darkness through a fusion of black and death metal from the Alsatian capital.
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