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Dearborn's Chaz Hook blends progressive metal's compositional ambition with groove and death metal's heavier instincts, reflecting Michigan's history of producing technically serious musicians willing to move between extremes. Their work rewards listeners with an ear for both complexity and outright heaviness.
Omaha's Cheap Porno Flick blends death metal's brutality with grindcore's blastbeat economy and black humor, producing short, savage tracks in the tradition of American gore-grind. Their output is deliberately provocative and proudly low-brow.
Black-death metal band from Badalona near Barcelona, Spain, active since 2011. They merge voodoo-tinged darkness with blackened death metal from the Catalan coast.
Death metal and grindcore band from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver irreverent, chaotic extremity with a playful edge from the former West German capital.
Brutal death metal act from Penza in central Russia, formed in 2022. Chelicerae Growth Pathogen delivers pathology-themed brutality with a name referencing arachnid appendages.
Portland, Oregon's Chemical Annihilation fuses death metal's brutality with thrash's kinetic aggression into a relentless sonic assault. The band channels the Pacific Northwest's underground energy into tight, punishing compositions.
Everett, Washington's Chemical Castration attacks from multiple extreme metal angles, blending black metal atmosphere, death metal brutality, and grindcore's manic speed. The band operates in the chaotic space where these genres collide.
Chemical Disaster is a death metal band from Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 1993 out of members of the local thrash band Ignorance. Their debut album "Resurrection" was released in December 1993 on Cogumelo Records, followed by "Scraps of a Being" (2000) and "Third Wound" (2011) on Violent Records. The band's sound blends chunky, mid-paced death metal with aggressive riffing and remains active as one of the most enduring extreme metal acts from the Santos coastal region.
Death-thrash outfit from Slavonski Brod, Croatia, formed in 2016. Chemical Exposure delivers caustic, high-speed riffing that channels the spirit of late-'80s thrash revivalism.
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