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When Exorcist emerged in 2021 from Warsaw, they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal and thrash metal — all punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Death/thrash metal band from Athens, Greece active since 2014. They bring fierce extreme metal from the Greek capital.
Death metal act from Osnabruck in Lower Saxony, Germany, delivering crushing extremity since 2008. Their numerically suffixed name suggests a scientific, methodical approach to death metal's punishing framework.
Seymour, Tennessee's Exorency are a young death metal force formed in 2024, building their sound far from the major metropolitan scenes and bringing a focused, unadorned approach to the genre's fundamentals. East Tennessee provides an unlikely but fitting origin for music this blunt and uncompromising.
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Leiden's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this death metal unit is among them — wielding technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality. Their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Belgian death/thrash metal veterans from Mol, active since 1992 with a discography spanning their 1991 demo through 2016's "The Fifth Season." One of Belgium's longest-running extreme metal acts, their catalog includes "Carnival of Souls" and "Absolution In Death," documenting over three decades of brutal, unrelenting metal.
Brutal death metal band from Glasgow, Scotland formed in 2020. They deliver grotesque brutality from Scotland's largest city.
Death metal and grindcore act from Krefeld-Linn in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, delivering visceral extremity since 2012. Their medically graphic name reflects the raw, physical intensity of their grinding death metal.
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