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Vetha is a technical death/groove metal band from Normandy, France, formed in 2014. They combine technical death metal's precision with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness.
Virvum was formed in Zürich, Switzerland in 2007 by guitarists Bryan Berger and Nic Gruhn, crafting a style of technical death metal notable for its melodic expansiveness and progressive architecture. Their debut album Illuminance (2016) attracted widespread attention and led to a deal with Season of Mist in 2017, positioning them alongside the leading acts in contemporary technical and progressive death metal. Gruhn's profile rose further through his work touring with Fallujah and opening for Suffocation and Cephalic Carnage.
Visceral Abnormality is a technical death metal band from Guadalajara, Jalisco, formed in 2017. The band explores themes of social criticism, philosophy, and occultism across releases including the EP Humanity Lost (2020) and the single The Pinnacle of Human Evolution (2022). They remain one of the more prominent independent tech-death acts in Guadalajara's underground scene.
Warsaw's Vitur brings technical precision to death metal with intricate riffing patterns, complex time signatures, and a relentless rhythmic foundation. Their compositions showcase the technical death metal tradition while maintaining visceral heaviness.
Vnrest is a progressive/technical death metal project from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2016. Across their numbered releases — I, II, and III — they explore increasingly complex technical death metal compositions.
Death-thrash metal band from Mönchengladbach, Germany founded in 2005, featuring Sebastian Meisen on vocals, Christian Neumann and Felix Lemmen on guitars/bass, and Selim Karakoc on drums. After a hiatus from 2013-2019, they returned with renewed force, releasing Beast Inside, Pure Purge, and the 2025 album Rise of Independence.
New Orleans' Wasted Creation formed in 2020 at the punishing convergence of technical death metal and deathcore, drawing on a city whose musical DNA runs unusually deep even for extreme metal. The technical sophistication of their death metal side coexists with the sheer brutality of deathcore in a way that feels native to a city that has always blended traditions without hesitation. They arrived ready to inflict serious damage.
Technical death metal and deathcore band from Málaga, Spain active since 2013. Wasting the Genesis fuses intricate technical death metal with deathcore's punishing breakdowns, delivering precision-driven extremity from Andalusia.
Multi-genre project from Jaén, Spain active since 2017, evolving from heavy metal through technical death/thrash metal to post-rock. Witchshire's stylistic journey reflects an ambitious creative vision that refuses to be confined to a single genre.
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