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Tacoma, Washington's Excrescence have been delivering brutal death metal since 2020, operating out of the shadow of Seattle's larger music industry but with a rawer, heavier edge befitting the port city's working-class character. Their sound is direct and crushing — low tunings, blast-heavy drumming, and guttural vocals that prioritize weight over technicality.
Death metal and crust punk hybrid from Switzerland, merging the guttural heaviness of death metal with the raw, D-beat energy of crust since 2018. Their dual-genre approach creates a filthy, unpolished sound that draws from punk and metal's most extreme fringes.
Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels death metal and melodic death metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2014, based in Salem, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Thrash/death metal outfit from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, delivering aggressive, high-velocity metal since 2012. Their crossover of thrash and death metal brings raw Balkan energy to the extreme metal underground.
Las Vegas's Excretory Engorgement have been in the brutal death metal trenches since 2014, proving that the desert city harbors a dedicated underground beneath the glittering resort surface. Their extreme, gore-inflected brutality is part of a long tradition of American BDM bands that find ugliness as an aesthetic virtue, and they deliver it with committed intensity.
Emerging from Stockholm, this Swedish act forges Death Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Death/doom/thrash metal act from Zurich, Switzerland, active since 2005 with an extensive catalog spanning conceptual releases marked by bracketed letter titles. Their prolific output includes split releases, EPs, and full-length albums exploring dark religious and existential themes across multiple extreme metal subgenres.
Thrash/black/death metal band originally from Norway, active since the mid-2000s. Their sound fuses three extreme metal pillars into a chaotic, boundary-crossing hybrid.
Death/doom metal act from Finland, active since 2000. With a quarter century of history, they are deep veterans of the Finnish death/doom tradition.
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