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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Melodic death metal with a grim undercurrent, Elisha work within a tradition of layering clean melodic hooks over down-tuned brutality, finding an emotional resonance that goes beyond simple aggression.
Portland's Elitist refuse to stay in one lane — their sound drags sludge's suffocating weight through grindcore velocity and crust punk fury, occasionally dropping into straight death metal savagery without warning.
Black, death, and thrash metal band from Lahti, Finland formed in 2016, featuring Swedish-language song titles despite their Finnish origins. Their catalog includes Dorn Jonner and Skojande Svenska, performing with a raw, uncompromising intensity.
Proof that the underground never sleeps, this death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore act from Braga traffics in labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Since 2012, they've built a catalog that reflects Portugal's intimate but fiercely devoted metal community.
Melodic folk/death metal act from the Schaumburg district of Lower Saxony, Germany, weaving folk melodies into aggressive death metal since 2016. Named after the Norse river separating the worlds of the living and the dead, their sound bridges folk beauty and extreme metal ferocity.
Black, death, and progressive metal band from Strasbourg, France formed in 2019. They blend extreme metal intensity with progressive ambition from the Alsatian capital.
Seattle's Elks Blood have been grinding out death/thrash since 2010 with the Pacific Northwest's characteristic intensity — unrelenting riff patterns, furious tempos, and a sound that owes equal debts to both parent genres.
Mansfield's Ellimist bring a cerebral edge to death metal, layering progressive architecture over brutal foundations — songs that shift and evolve in ways that reward close listening rather than just overwhelm with raw force.
Des Moines' Elliot Klimowski operates as a one-person melodic death metal entity, crafting music that finds genuine feeling within the genre's aggressive framework — a solo project with the compositional ambition of a full band.
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