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Black/death metal act from Nuremberg, Germany, delivering unrestrained extremity since 2007. Their name captures the over-the-top, boundary-pushing intensity of their approach to extreme metal.
Progressive death/thrash metal act from Switzerland's Rhine Valley, combining the technicality of progressive metal with death and thrash aggression since 2007. Their genre-crossing approach blends cerebral complexity with visceral, high-speed energy.
Death metal band from Biarritz on the Atlantic coast of France, active since 2016. They bring brutal death metal from the Basque Country's seaside resort town.
Orange County's Excised play melodic death metal with a heavier, more visceral edge than the Gothenburg tradition that inspired them, active since 2015. Their Southern California roots push them toward a sunnier sense of melody even as the riffs stay caustic and the drumming punishing — melodic death metal for a scene that likes its music both catchy and brutal.
Excised was a death metal band from Iquique, Chile, working in the tradition of Swedish death metal acts such as Nihilist, Dismember, and Grave. Their 2016 release Rotting Away, a seven-track album recorded at Norte Detonante Estudio, is their primary documented output before the band split up.
Exclusionist are a freshly formed death-thrash outfit from Salt Lake City, Utah, coming together in 2025 with a sound that fuses thrash metal's headlong momentum with death metal's darker tonal palette. The band is part of Utah's growing underground metal community, bringing a coiled, aggressive energy to one of the American West's more unlikely metal cities.
Elexcomulgado is a black/death metal band from Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, formed in 2002. The band plays anti-Christian-themed extreme metal and released their album "Me cago en Dios" in 2003. They have remained active and independent throughout their career.
When Excoriation emerged in 2014 from Moscow, they brought with them a sound rooted in brutal death metal and death metal — all percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Detroit's Excremental Scaphism are a recent and uncompromising entry into the brutal death metal and grindcore space, forming in 2023 with a name that leaves no illusions about their musical intentions. They bring the grind and brutality traditions together under the shadow of the Motor City, a fitting birthplace for music built on industrial noise and extreme aggression.
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