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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Melodic death/doom metal band from Lisbon, Portugal launched in 2025. Their name — referencing the ancient Lusitanian deity Endovelicus — roots their sound in Iberian pre-Roman mythology.
Milwaukee melodic death/metalcore veterans active since 2002, combining the hook-driven sensibility of Scandinavian melodeath with the breakdowns and emotional directness of metalcore. Over two decades they have remained a fixture of Wisconsin's extreme metal community.
Melodic death metal act from the small Franconian town of Naila, Germany, formed in 2024. Their eschatological name drives a sound that merges melodic richness with the aggressive precision of modern death metal.
Tampa melodic death/groove metal act formed in 2022 in one of America's most storied metal cities, blending the hooky melodic leads of Gothenburg-style death metal with the thick mid-tempo groove that the Florida scene has always done well.
Death metal, deathcore, and melodic death metal act from Helsinki, Finland launched in 2024. They bring a multi-faceted approach to modern extreme metal from the Finnish capital.
Proof that the underground never sleeps, this death metal, melodic death metal, and thrash metal act from Stockholm traffics in labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Since 2019, they've built a catalog that reflects the Gothenburg school's homeland.
Devotees of death metal, groove metal, and melodic death metal, this Swedish outfit from Örebro has been refining their craft since 2017. Their sound hinges on Florida-school brutality with modern precision, delivered with unrelenting drive.
Melodic death/thrash metal act from Duisburg in Germany's Ruhr Valley, formed in 2022, combining harmonic guitar work with thrash velocity. Their name evokes internal conflict, driving compositions that pit melody against aggression.
Chicago's Enforsaken has been navigating the overlap between melodic and brutal death metal since 2004, bringing Scandinavian melodic sensibilities to a firmly American delivery. Two decades in, they remain one of the more quietly tenacious acts in the Illinois extreme metal scene.
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