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Agamemnon (2025)
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Unholy Savior (2015)
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Black, death, and gothic metal band from Heraklion, Crete, Greece, active since 2018. They blend multiple extreme metal styles from the largest city on the island of Crete.
Chicago's Elbow Deep has been pummeling the city's underground death metal scene since 2013. Straightforward and unapologetically blunt, the band commits to the genre's most visceral instincts without embellishment.
Death metal band from London, England formed in 2021. They deliver brutal death metal from the British capital.
Independence, Kentucky's EldenWhite arrived in 2024 with a progressive death metal approach that suggests ambitions well beyond the band's nascent existence. Technical ferocity and melodic sophistication already compete for space in their sound.
Krasnyy Chikoy's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this death metal and melodic death metal unit is among them — wielding HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition. Their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Nashville's Eldercall has been bringing symphonic weight and melodic death metal intensity to Music City since 2020. Orchestral grandeur and melodic ferocity are the defining elements of their approach.
Death/black/doom metal act from Santander on Spain's northern coast, merging three extreme subgenres since 2017. Their approach draws from the Cantabrian coast's harsh, windswept character to fuel their multi-genre darkness.
The Swedish city of Stockholm serves as headquarters for this death metal operation, whose arsenal includes Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
A California-based outfit formed in 2023, Eldon Cult merges progressive structures with the melodic and brutal ends of death metal, crafting technically ambitious music that refuses to sit still within any single subgenre.
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