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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.
Blackened speed/heavy metal band from Purgatório, Portugal formed in 2020. Their Catalan-language name and raw, blackened speed metal approach draw on Iberian underground metal traditions.
Italian death/speed metal act formed in 2010, channeling aggressive riffing with old-school speed metal velocity. Their Bandcamp presence showcases a raw, uncompromising approach to extreme metal.
Em Ruínas is a speed metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, dedicated to the raw, high-energy sound of 1980s speed metal. The duo has released two full-length albums — ...From the Speed Metal Graves (2010) and No Speed Limit (Metal Tornado) (2017) — along with an EP titled Furiosa (2016), maintaining a long-running presence in the Brazilian underground metal scene.
Pittsburgh's Emanon have been sharpening their speed and thrash attack since 2005, drawing on classic American aggression and razor-tight riffwork. The band moves with the propulsive urgency of old Bay Area thrash filtered through Steel City grit.
New England's Embitterment throw melodic black metal, death, thrash, and speed into a single volatile concoction, arriving in 2025 with a genre-blurring approach that refuses easy categorization. Expect fierce melodic leads cutting through blackened death metal chaos at speed-metal tempo.
Akron's Emerald Rage hit hard at the intersection of speed, power, and traditional heavy metal, delivering the kind of fist-pumping anthems and fleet-footed riffing that recalls the best of the Ohio metal underground.
Death metal, progressive metal, speed metal, and thrash band from Paris, France launched in 2024. They deliver a technically ambitious, multi-genre extreme metal assault from the French capital.
Heavy/speed metal act from Odense, Denmark, delivering high-velocity, riff-driven metal since 2015. Their deliberately misspelled name adds a distinctive visual identity to their classic-sounding heavy and speed metal.
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