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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Heavy Thrash / Death Metal out of Texas.
Columbus, Ohio thrash/speed/death metal band casting a wide net across extreme metal's most kinetic traditions, blending the brutality of death metal with the velocity of thrash and speed.
Providence death metal act drawing from New England's historically dark and storied underground, delivering straight-ahead brutality with the no-nonsense directness Rhode Island's scene is known for.
McAllen's thrash/death metal contingent, operating from deep in the Rio Grande Valley where the heat and isolation of the Texas borderlands fuel a relentless, suffocating sonic assault.
Birmingham, Alabama black/death metal act steeped in the South's tradition of heavy, dark extremity — a city with steel in its bones and a metal underground that has always punched above its weight.
Death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece active since 2011. They bring brutal death metal from northern Greece.
Black/death metal band from Barcelona, Spain formed in 1996, boasting a deep catalog of ten releases including Goatworshipping Metal and Psalms of Plagues and Cult of Death. Their extensive discography spans nearly three decades of unrelenting extreme metal darkness.
Brutal death metal band from Arelaune-en-Seine in Normandy, France, active since 2001. With over two decades of history, they are veterans of the French brutal death metal scene.
When Ereskigal emerged in 2017 from London, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal and death metal — all frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
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