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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Ancient Ascendant has been delivering death metal from Reading since 2008, making them one of the Thames Valley's most enduring extreme metal acts. Nearly two decades of sustained brutality speak to deep commitment within the Berkshire metal scene.
Denver death metal project from the Colorado underground.
Walpole, Massachusetts death metal project delivering old-school extremity since 2022. Their Sacred Vessel EP and follow-up demo channel the New England tradition of grim, no-frills death metal — cold, dark, and unforgiving as a Massachusetts winter.
Euless death metal project from the Texas underground.
Milwaukee death metal project from the Wisconsin underground.
Chicago death metal outfit active since 2010. Their debut EP Burning Lies and full-length Living in the Wrong Time deliver straightforward, punishing death metal from a city whose extreme underground runs deep beneath the blues and jazz surface.
Ancient Hymns brings death metal from Galicia's northwest corner, carrying forward the region's growing reputation for extreme music since their 2024 formation. Their early work channels the primal energy of a band just beginning to stake their claim in Spain's death metal underground.
Ancient Land were a pagan black/death metal band from Embu das Artes, on the outskirts of São Paulo, who blended black and death metal with symphonic elements and themes of freedom, paganism, nature, and anti-Christianity. Their Bandcamp catalogue includes the releases In My Solitude…, In the Name of the Cross…, The Symphony of War, and Destroys the Lies before the band dissolved.
Ancient Malice brings death metal and grindcore from Dublin as of 2025, joining the city's expanding roster of extreme metal acts. Their unapologetically violent name signals the primal savagery at the core of their sonic assault.
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