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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Melodic death metal band from Brasschaat near Antwerp, active since 1998, making them one of the longer-running melodic death metal acts in Belgium. Over a quarter century of activity reflects their deep commitment to the Scandinavian-influenced melodeath sound.
American melodic death metal act formed in 2020, Stargrave crafts melodically-driven death metal that balances aggressive riffing with sweeping lead guitar work and dynamic song structures.
Melodic death metal act from Sacramento, California, formed in 2025, Stars in the Void brings a melodically charged approach to death metal drawing from the Gothenburg tradition.
San Antonio, Texas melodic death metal and metalcore band formed in 2016, Start a War fuses the melodic aggression of Swedish death metal with the breakdowns and intensity of modern metalcore.
Kharkiv's Starving Souls deliver melodic death metal from the war-affected eastern Ukrainian city since 2012. Over a decade from the embattled metropolis, their famished-spirit name has channeled the hunger of deprived consciousness into compositions of melodic intensity.
Greeley, Colorado symphonic melodic death metal band formed in 2019, Starwraith layers orchestral arrangements and cinematic keyboard textures over melodic death metal riffing and aggressive rhythmic attack.
Birmingham, Alabama death metal band active since 2005, State of Decay represents the deep South's underground death metal community with a straightforward, punishing approach to the genre.
Hayward, California metalcore and melodic death metal band formed in 2025, State of Reliance blends the hook-driven intensity of metalcore with the melodic riff vocabulary of death metal.
State of Torment deliver melodic death metal and deathcore from Bad Salzuflen in North Rhine-Westphalia, combining Scandinavian melodeath with modern breakdown-driven heaviness. Formed in 2023, they bring anguished extremity to the Lippe region.
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