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Exterminio is a death metal band from San Martín, Buenos Aires, with roots stretching back to 1989, making them one of Argentina's earliest death metal acts alongside Vibrion and Escabios. Founding vocalist Fernando Grippo has remained a constant presence across the band's history, which spans the early cassette era through full-lengths including Epitaph (1994), Homicide in First Degree (2007, via Hurling Metal Records), Inhuman Atrocities (2012, via Icarus Music), and Narcorporations (2017). The current lineup also features guitarists Carlos Varela and Alejandro Bustamante, bassist Richard Farias, and drummer Juan Calvete.
Tidaholm-based death metal act, active since 2015 delivering HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition. Rooted in Sweden's legendary metal infrastructure, their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Death metal, melodic death metal, and power metal band from Pori, Finland active since 2013. They fuse the aggression of death metal with the melody and energy of power metal.
Turkish black metal and death metal act, active since 2023 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in Turkey's rapidly expanding metal underground, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Crust punk and death metal act from Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, active since 2001. With over two decades of activity, they are a pillar of the Galician crust and extreme underground.
San Fernando Valley's Extinction have been fusing thrash and death metal since 2020, drawing on Southern California's long relationship with extreme music to produce something that honors both traditions. The Valley's sprawling suburban geography seems to fuel a certain restless, aggressive energy in the bands it produces.
Tiffin, Ohio's Extinction Agenda arrived in 2023 fusing brutal death metal and deathcore into something maximally heavy and deliberately relentless. The small-city Ohio origin underscores an underground work ethic — this is music built from the ground up with no expectation of easy attention.
Death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore band from Vaasa, Finland active since 2013. They bring modern extreme metal from the Ostrobothnian coast.
New Jersey's Extinction Ritual deal in blackened death metal, blending the corrosive atmosphere of black metal with death metal's raw, physical intensity since forming in 2024. The Garden State has a long history of feeding extreme metal to the Northeast, and Extinction Ritual are among the newest acts carrying that tradition forward.
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