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When Extorted emerged in 2020 from Ufa, they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal, deathcore, and melodic death metal — all percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Portland, Oregon's Extraneous bring a death metal attack shaped by the city's fertile underground, active since 2017. Dense, churning riffs and a contempt for polish define their approach, slotting naturally alongside Portland's long tradition of uncompromising extreme music.
Houston's Extrathesia arrived in 2024 with brutal death metal sewn into their DNA, emerging from one of Texas's most storied extreme metal cities. Their brand of savagery leans into technical precision and gut-punch low-end, carrying on the Houston tradition of unsparing heaviness.
Death/thrash metal band from Paris, France active since 2016. They deliver fierce extreme metal from the French capital.
Part of Holland's dense concentration of metal talent, this act channels death metal and doom metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2021, based in Kampen, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Extreme Hate were a death metal/grindcore band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, active from 1999 until their eventual split-up. The band recorded a series of demos between 2003 and 2006 — including a 2005 session at Barata Studio — which were later compiled on the release Open Wound / Demo(n)s. Their ferocious blend of deathgrind placed them within Belo Horizonte's storied extreme metal underground.
Ipswich-based crust punk, death metal, and grindcore act, active since 1995 delivering blast-beat saturation and screaming vocals in sub-minute bursts. Rooted in Britain's endlessly regenerating metal lineage, their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels death metal and thrash metal with a focus on labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Formed in 1995, based in Bologna, the focus remains squarely on devastating rhythmic impact.
Albuquerque's Extremist have been forging death/thrash metal in the New Mexico desert since 2014, where isolation seems to breed a particular kind of ferocity. Their music straddles the grinding brutality of death metal and the galloping momentum of thrash, built for the headbang and the mosh in equal measure.
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