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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Obnoxious (2022)
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Death metal band from Tampa, Florida drawing on the fertile legacy of Florida's world-famous death metal scene. The band remains independent, part of a long tradition of extreme metal acts emerging from the Tampa Bay area.
Death metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2017. They deliver relentless death metal from the Hanseatic port city.
Death metal band from Meissen in Saxony, Germany, formed in 2023. They channel death metal aggression from the historic porcelain city on the Elbe.
Death metal and grindcore act from Brno, Czech Republic, formed in 2020. They channel the Moravian capital's rich extreme metal heritage through a blend of grinding blasts and guttural death metal.
Belarusian metal act blending death metal, industrial metal, and thrash metal into a mechanized, aggressive sound. Their genre-crossing approach draws from both extreme and electronic metal traditions.
Death-doom metal band from Varna, Bulgaria, active since 2019. They fuse the crushing heaviness of death metal with the slow, oppressive weight of doom, creating a dark and suffocating sonic atmosphere.
Death-thrash act from Grândola in the Alentejo, active since 2010. Cryptor Morbious Family channels morbid, family-styled extreme metal from southern Portugal's cork oak country.
Brutal death metal band from Atlanta, Georgia founded by embalmer-turned-musician Justin Stubbs and inspired by acts like Malignancy and Disgorge, before the project transitioned into Unborn Salivate in 2018. Their early demo work earned coverage in Decibel Magazine and helped establish them within the southeastern brutal death metal underground.
Symphonic black metal band from South Lake Tahoe, California, blending orchestral arrangement with the raw aggression of black metal in a high-altitude Sierra Nevada setting. The band's 2023 demo Cryptic Bloodlust announced a project with an ear for cinematic scope within extreme metal.
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