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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Crown Point/Chesterton, Indiana death metal project whose 2014 EP The Weeping Bonesaw Tapes sounds exactly as horrific as the title suggests. Northwest Indiana's industrial lakefront provides fitting backdrop for their brand of grisly extremity.
Sunol death metal project from the California underground.
Manchester death metal project from the New Hampshire underground.
Texas death metal project.
Lacey, Washington death metal act arriving in 2026 with the EP We Ate Him. The Pacific Northwest's extreme underground continues to produce bands committed to death metal's most transgressive impulses.
Angel Rising merges death metal, groove metal, progressive metal, and thrash metal from Marseille since 2020, creating an ambitious four-genre hybrid from France's Mediterranean port. Their redemptive name contrasts with the heaviness of their multi-faceted assault.
Kansas City/Tampa death metal legends delivering some of the most ferocious war metal in American history.
Angelcrypt has evolved from death and thrash metal into melodic death metal from St. Paul's Bay in Malta since 2016. Their cryptic-angelic name drives a sound that has progressively refined its melodic sensibilities from this northern Maltese coastal town.
Vienna's Angelcunt operate at the extreme crossroads of black and death metal, drawing on the deliberately confrontational tradition of early Scandinavian black metal. Their material couples blast-beat aggression with venomous, anti-religious lyricism and the low-fi rawness of the underground tape-trading circuit.
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