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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Atlanta's Ecryptus represent the Southern chapter of the death metal underground, active since 2008 with a direct, no-decoration approach that keeps the genre's original brutality front and center.
Vladimir, Russia — death metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2014, they deal in punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Seattle's Ectopic Pregnancy, formed in 2024, weaponize brutal death metal and goregrind in the tradition of Pacific Northwest extremity — confrontational, visceral, and unapologetically ugly.
Out of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania — a town with its own ghosts — Ectoplasm have been grinding through the death/grind underground since 2019, their name fitting perfectly for a band rising from historically haunted soil.
Death metal band from Nikaia, Greece active since 2011. They deliver old-school death metal brutality from the Athens metropolitan area.
Tulsa's Ectospire formed in 2022 with a focused commitment to death metal's core values — a band from Oklahoma's second city finding its footing in the genre's underground.
Birmingham, Alabama's Ectovoid have been cultivating a deeply cavernous strain of death metal since 2011 — murky, subterranean, and rooted in the earliest traditions of the form.
Death/doom/black metal act from Rivas-Vaciamadrid near Madrid, Spain, weaving together three of extreme metal's darkest threads since 2007. Their skin-condition name captures the raw, uncomfortable intensity of their genre-crossing extremity.
Progressive death metal act from Brno, Czech Republic, combining death metal's aggression with progressive structures and melodic complexity since 2009. Named after a race from Tolkien's Silmarillion, their sound carries a mythical weight within its technical framework.
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