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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Death metal and metalcore band from Lille, France active since 2011. They bring intense, modern extreme metal from France's northern metropolis.
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Thrash/death metal band from Barreiro across the Tagus from Lisbon, Portugal active since 2017. Their sound fuses thrash speed with death metal brutality from the industrial south bank of the Lisbon metropolitan area.
Belgian brutal and technical death metal act from Zelem-Halen, evolving from raw brutality toward greater technical complexity since 2017. Their trajectory mirrors the genre's broader evolution from blunt-force aggression to intricate, precision-driven extremity.
California's Central Coast town of Atascadero is an unlikely birthplace for a death-grind outfit, but Emetic have been operating there since 2012, delivering short, savage blasts of noise that owe as much to grindcore's hardcore roots as to death metal's brutality.
Death metal act from Avignon, France that emerged in 2025. They add fresh brutality to the Provencal metal scene.
Southern Illinois newcomers Emetophobia bring technical death metal's intricate architecture to the small college town of Carterville, threading dense compositional ideas through relentlessly aggressive delivery.
Eminent Scorn is a death metal and brutal death metal band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The duo features Camila Carvalho on vocals and Paulo Monteiro on instruments, and has released the Idol of Hate EP alongside several singles including Blood Driven Lunacy and Shellshock.
Champaign's Eminent Slaughter have been delivering Illinois death metal since 2016, a no-frills operation built around consistent riffwork and the kind of brutality that tends to develop far from any scene spotlight.
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