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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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Orange County's Excised play melodic death metal with a heavier, more visceral edge than the Gothenburg tradition that inspired them, active since 2015. Their Southern California roots push them toward a sunnier sense of melody even as the riffs stay caustic and the drumming punishing — melodic death metal for a scene that likes its music both catchy and brutal.
Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels death metal and melodic death metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2014, based in Salem, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Long Beach, New York's Execute Order 66 have been merging melodic death metal's twin-guitar melodicism with metalcore's breakdown-driven structure since 2011. Their name announces a certain irreverence, but their music is earnest in its hybridization of European melodeath aesthetics with the American metalcore tradition that shaped the Long Island scene.
Straddling the line between death metal and groove metal, this Russian actfrom Stavropol fuses HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2019, and their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Melodic death metal act from Wiesbaden in Hesse, Germany, crafting harmonically rich, aggressive compositions since 2019. Their exhumation-themed name drives a sound that unearths melodic beauty from beneath layers of death metal aggression.
Melodic death metal act from Minsk, Belarus, crafting harmonically rich, aggressive compositions since 2017. Their approach draws from the melodic death metal tradition with Scandinavian-inspired dual-guitar harmonies filtered through a Belarusian perspective.
Out of Kadoka, South Dakota — one of the more isolated corners of the American interior — Exile the Empire launched in 2024 with a melodic death metal vision that seems determined to prove geography is no barrier to ambition. Their sound blends the Scandinavian melodic death template with a rawer, homegrown intensity.
Melodic death metal and metalcore act from Giessen in Hesse, Germany, blending harmonic intensity with hardcore energy since 2014. Their existentially charged name reflects the urgency and emotional weight of their aggressive sound.
Exnecros is a technical and melodic death metal band from Rio de Janeiro, formed in 2024, featuring guitarist and lyricist Lucas Brum alongside vocalist Josam, who also handles orchestrations. The band released their debut, Total Depravity, on July 1, 2024, blending fast and complex guitar work with symphonic orchestrations and lyrics centered on Christian theology.
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