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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Elizabethton, Tennessee death metal band Coven of the Wretched bring Appalachian darkness to a genre not often associated with the region. Their sound is rough-edged and unpolished in all the right ways, reflecting a deep underground mentality.
Fayetteville, Georgia's Covenant fuse groove metal's mid-tempo heaviness with thrash aggression and death metal bite. They operate in the tradition of mid-90s American metal, where crossover brutality was the defining characteristic.
Death metal band from Colmar in Alsace, France, formed in 2018. They deliver death metal from the picturesque Alsatian wine region.
Death metal and deathcore act from Pinsk, Belarus, formed in 2012. They deliver a punishing blend of brutal death metal aggression with deathcore breakdowns drawn from the Eastern European extreme underground.
Dayton, Ohio's Covered in Scars combine death metal aggression with the mid-tempo swagger of groove metal, built on thick riffs and hard-hitting drums. Their sound is straightforward and heavy, rooted in the Midwest's no-nonsense approach to extreme music.
Philadelphia death/grind band Covered in Sores work in the ugly, fast-and-filthy tradition of bands that made both genres infamous — short songs, intense bursts, no mercy. They fit naturally into Philly's deep history of extreme underground acts.
Death-thrash metal band from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2024. They channel pandemic-era nihilism through a punishing blend of death metal brutality and thrash metal velocity.
Death-doom act from the small town of Donskoy in Tula Oblast, formed in 2020. COVID-19 — provocatively named after the pandemic — delivers crushing, morbid heaviness.
COVID-19 is a one-person death metal and goregrind project from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed in 2020 by the musician Érdos at the outset of the global pandemic. The project uses the pandemic as both name and lyrical subject, channeling the horror of the coronavirus era into brutal extreme metal. Their EP "When the Traditional Margarine Commercial Family Dies" was released digitally through Póstumo Sölstício Records.
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