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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Progressive technical death metal project of renowned drummer Hannes Grossmann from Nuremberg, Germany, known for his work with Necrophagist, Obscura, and Blotted Science. His solo album Echoes Of Eternity pays homage to his former bands while showcasing his compositional prowess, recorded entirely at his MordorSounds studio.
Milwaukee's Harlots have spent two decades sharpening the intersection of metalcore and technical death metal into something genuinely punishing. Formed in 2004, they bring the rhythmic punch of the former and the surgical precision of the latter in equal measure.
From Modena in Italy, this technical death metal act brings relentless intensity to the regional scene since 2020. Their work explores the genre's heaviest territories through savage delivery.
HateSower is a technical death/black metal band from Caserta, Italy, formed in 2025. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Metalcore act from Amiens in northern France, active since 2023. Their mythological name referencing the sea monster Scylla adds epic scope to modern metalcore from the Picardy region.
Fierce technical death metal project from Schio (Vicenza), carving a path through Italy's underground since 2011. Their work explores the genre's heaviest territories through savage delivery.
Death metal outfit from Liverpool, active since 2020. Their compositions deliver crushing brutality from one of England's most musically storied cities.
Rome's Hideous Divinity formed in 2007 and have built a discography of concept albums within the technical and brutal death metal tradition, signing to Century Media Records after their 2012 debut. Each release, including Adveniens (2017), Simulacrum (2019), and Unextinct (2024), is constructed around a distinct conceptual framework — the latter drawing from Bram Stoker's Dracula — executed through a dense, meticulously arranged approach to death metal that prioritizes compositional detail over straightforward aggression. They rank among the most internationally recognized acts in Italian extreme metal.
A brand-new presence in the avant-garde death metal sphere, Hierarchies arrived in 2025 with technical ambition and a willingness to bend genre logic in pursuit of something genuinely strange. Their approach to death metal is as much compositional problem-solving as it is sonic brutality.
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