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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Featured Groove Metal Album
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Metalcore and deathcore act from Lucerne, Switzerland, bringing crushing breakdowns and aggressive intensity since 2020. Their sound merges the rhythmic precision of metalcore with deathcore's heavier, more extreme tendencies.
Technical death metal band from Asse, Belgium, formed in 2022, delivering precision-driven extremity from the Flemish Brabant province. Their sound combines the intricacy and speed of technical death metal with a relentless rhythmic assault.
Brutal death metal and grindcore project from Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, driven by Killer on guitars, bass, and programmed drums with vocalist Sata. Members have ties to Infecto Cadaver, Silent Grinders, and Moriae Encomium.
Practitioners of death metal and melodic death metal, this British outfit from Norwich has been refining their craft since 2009. Their sound hinges on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end, delivered with ferocious dedication.
Death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore band from Seinajoki, Finland active since 2014. They deliver aggressive, modern extreme metal from the Ostrobothnian plains.
Dallas' End Times evolved from hardcore roots into a volatile blend of death metal, thrash, and hardcore crossover — the kind of band whose evolution mirrors the city's own heavy music scene expanding outward in every direction. Formed in 2010, they've grown harder and heavier with time.
Albuquerque's End to End arrived on the New Mexico death metal scene in 2025, bringing a direct, no-frills approach to the genre that suits the high desert's stark, unadorned landscape. Fresh but already operating with conviction.
Englewood, Florida's End-Bane split the difference between groove metal's rhythmic churn and death metal's aggression, building songs around heavy riff cycles with a brutal edge. Formed in 2020, they're part of Florida's ever-fertile extreme metal ecosystem.
Formed in 2024, this Saint Petersburg Death Metal outfit delivers guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Their place within Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
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