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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Punishing brutal death metal from Fgura, formed in 2025. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Forged in 2021 from Lisbon, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
Progressive death metal outfit from Moscow, formed in 2009. Their material navigates shifting tempos, unconventional song structures, and intricate instrumental interplay while maintaining the genre's essential aggression.
Finnish thrash metal band from Laihia in South Ostrobothnia, formed in 2020. They deliver head-chopping thrash metal from the Finnish flatlands.
Death metal band from Atibaia, São Paulo state, Brazil, tracing roots to an earlier project called Eviscerate Lies. Their debut album Morbid Blood was recorded at Pró-Sound Studios in Atibaia and released in 2015, mixing gore and sociopolitical themes with blunt, no-frills death metal drawn from the interior São Paulo underground.
Spanish progressive melodic death metal band from Seville, formed in 2022. They weave progressive structures into melodic death metal from Andalusia's cultural heart.
Finnish raw black metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2024. They channel raw, unfiltered black metal from the Finnish capital.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Petroupolis/Athens, active since 2012. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Unholy black metal duo from Swindon in Wiltshire, formed in 1994, featuring Dev Culto on guitar and Morbid Von Savagery on vocals and multi-instruments. Their catalog stretching from the 1994 demo Unnaturally Evil through In MoonShadow spans decades of raw, uncompromising black metal including rehearsal recordings and live compilations.
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