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Operating out of Brodnica, this Polish act forges Death Metal and Grindcore built on weaponized brevity delivering maximum aggression in minimum time. Their approach balances aggression with genuine musical substance.
Houston, Texas's Execrable Divinity have been representing the brutal death metal underground since 2012, part of a city with a surprisingly deep history in extreme metal. Their sound is relentlessly heavy — dense, slam-adjacent brutality rooted in the American BDM tradition, with a name that signals their comfort operating at the genre's most extreme and blasphemous edges.
Execrado is a black/death metal band from Formosa, Goiás, formed in late 2022 by Danilo Rocha (bass and vocals), Artur Tupinambá (guitar), and Vitão (drums), dedicated to old school death metal with lyrics written in Portuguese and influences from Brazilian heavy metal of the 1980s. The band released their debut EP "Registros do Além" in June 2023, a six-track recording produced at Manga Studio in Brasília.
Death metal act from Dinslaken in Germany's Ruhr Valley, delivering guttural extremity since 2007. Their name, meaning "to curse" or "to detest," captures the hostile, denouncing quality of their death metal approach.
Execrate is a death metal band from Ponta Grossa, Paraná, with roots stretching back to the underground Brazilian extreme metal scene of the 1990s; the band was active from 1993 to 2000 before reforming in 2018. Their catalog includes the split demo tape with Hellacaust and the full-length "The Collective Disease of Humanity" (2016).
Devastating Brutal Death Metal from Colorado Springs, Colorado (early); Houston, Texas (later).
Black/death metal act from Santander, Cantabria, Spain that emerged in 2025. They bring fresh extreme metal fury from Spain's northern coast.
Santa Ana, California's Execute are a brand-new death metal outfit formed in 2024, emerging from the deep pool of extreme metal talent in the Orange County and greater Los Angeles area. Their 714-branded Bandcamp handle signals local pride and scene loyalty, placing them squarely in the dense Southern California underground.
Long Beach, New York's Execute Order 66 have been merging melodic death metal's twin-guitar melodicism with metalcore's breakdown-driven structure since 2011. Their name announces a certain irreverence, but their music is earnest in its hybridization of European melodeath aesthetics with the American metalcore tradition that shaped the Long Island scene.
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