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Milwaukee, Wisconsin crossover thrash project. The emergency-number name promises urgent, aggressive punk-metal from Beer City.
9MM is a German heavy metal and hard rock band from Hanau, Hesse, formed in 2006 from the remnants of the band Rotten, which had been active from 1991 to 2006. The band has released albums steadily across the 2000s and 2010s, working in a traditional hard rock and heavy metal style. They remain an active presence in the German club metal circuit.
Prairieville, Louisiana groove metal and Southern heavy rock outfit. Bayou-bred heaviness with a name as slimy and slow as the creature it references.
Indianapolis NWOTHM project named after the deepest level of Dante's Hell. Classical literature meets classic heavy metal from the Circle City.
Depressive black metal project from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2015 under the name Wahn before adopting the :Nihus: moniker. The band centers on themes of depression, despair, and self-destruction, and has released the album Monólogo do Sofrimento as well as a split with Finnish act Invernium titled Forgotten Voices. Signed to Depressive Illusions Records, they have contributed tracks to Brazilian DSBM compilations and maintain a tight connection to the international depressive black metal underground.
Technical death metal band from Aracaju, Sergipe, named after Irineu Evangelista de Souza, the Baron of Mauá, the 19th-century industrialist who tried to modernize Brazil against government resistance. The band blends precision death metal with progressive and harmonic sensibilities, drawing influences from across the extreme spectrum from Napalm Death to Radiohead, and released the EP Conscience as an early showcase of their refined, worked-out approach. They have shared stages with established Brazilian acts including Torture Squad.
Los Angeles grindcore project whose bracketed name suggests redacted information — classified extremity from the entertainment capital.
Frigid Black Metal / Industrial from Weslaco.
Ácido was a short-lived thrash metal band from São Luís, Maranhão, active between 2020 and their dissolution shortly after. Operating out of Brazil's northeastern interior rather than the more established metal centers of São Paulo or Minas Gerais, the band represented the spread of aggressive thrash into less-documented regional scenes before parting ways.
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