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1733 is a thrash metal band from Dallas, Texas, debuting in 2020 with a seven-track release featuring songs like "Osiris" and "Unhittable." The band plays sharp, riff-forward thrash metal with a focus on tight execution and mythological themes. They are part of the Dallas-Fort Worth area's thriving thrash metal revival.
Raw black metal project from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, active between 2020 and its dissolution. The name 1835 references the year the Farroupilha Revolution erupted in the region, a decade-long separatist uprising that defines the cultural identity of southern Brazil, lending the band a distinctly regional character. With no Spotify presence and a short lifespan, 1835 existed firmly within the lo-fi Brazilian underground black metal tape and Bandcamp circuit.
1913 is a death metal and deathcore act from San Antonio, Texas, active since 2014. Their eight-track release features lowercase song titles like "peru," "more," and "americana" that hint at themes beyond typical genre fare. The band's name evokes historical weight, fitting for music that carries both brutality and gravity.
1914 is a Ukrainian blackened death metal and doom metal band formed in Lviv in 2014, dedicated entirely to documenting the history and human cost of the First World War. Founded by Dmytro "Kumar" Ternuschak, the band weaves period speech samples, battle sounds, and archival recordings into dense, historically grounded compositions across albums including The Blind Leading the Blind (2018), Where Fear and Weapons Meet (2021), and Viribus Unitis (2025) on Napalm Records. Their meticulous conceptual approach and emotional weight have distinguished them within extreme metal's crowded field of historically-themed acts.
1931 is a deathcore band from Galloway, Ohio, active since 2013 with three releases totaling 21 tracks. The band incorporates Spanish-language elements — tracks like "Agujero Negro" and "Suburbia" — into their crushing breakdowns and guttural delivery. Their sound reflects the diversity of Ohio's extreme metal underground.
1point3 is a crossover thrash and mathcore band from Columbus, Ohio, active since 2004 with two releases spanning 22 tracks. The band merges the speed of thrash with the angular, technical complexity of mathcore, featuring tracks like "Mask of the Wolf" and "Delirium Tremens." Their long tenure in the Columbus scene speaks to a committed, cult following.
200 Stab Wounds is a death metal band from Cleveland, Ohio, who have rapidly become one of the most talked-about acts in modern American death metal since forming in 2020. With tracks like "Maggot Casket" and "She Was Already Dead," the band delivers filthy, old-school-inspired death metal with a slamming edge. Signed to Metal Blade Records, they have brought Cleveland's brutal death metal scene to international attention.
21 Acts of Manslaughter is a grindcore act from Eustace, Texas, releasing an eight-track blast in 2020 that includes covers of Celtic Frost's "Procreation of the Wicked" and Sepultura's "Troops of Doom." The choice of covers reveals a reverence for extreme metal's founding fathers alongside their own bursts of grinding fury. The band represents the unlikely but enduring presence of grindcore in rural East Texas.
2112 is a progressive rock and heavy metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed in 1986 and named in honour of the Rush album, which they pronounce in Spanish as "Veinti Uno Doce." The band has released five studio albums spanning from Alterando las divisiones (1990) to Nuestro mejor fracaso (2020), with guitarist Juan Tambussi and drummer Sergio Moscatelli as long-standing core members.
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