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Death metal act from Rome, formed in 2025. Conflict Within represents the newest wave of death metal emerging from the Italian capital.
Death metal band from Hertfordshire, England, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing death metal from the English Home Counties.
Confounded is a death metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed around 2013 and active in the northeast Brazilian extreme metal scene. The band plays heavy, groove-inflected death metal and maintains a presence on Bandcamp and Instagram under the handle @confoundedband.
Heavy metal band from the small town of Sergach in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, formed in 2022. Confraternita Rock — Italian for 'rock brotherhood' — delivers traditional metal from rural Russia.
Death-doom act from the Netherlands, formed in 2014. Confrontation delivers heavy, HM-2-driven death-doom in the Swedish tradition.
Confronto was a deathcore and metalcore band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed around 2001 and known for politically charged Portuguese-language lyrics. The band released several albums including "Causa Mortis" (2005), "Sanctuarium" (2008), and "Die Young" (2014) before splitting up.
Bay Area thrash metal outfit drawing from the wellspring of the scene that defined the genre. Their music carries the hallmarks of classic Bay Area thrash: lightning riffs, aggressive vocals, and relentless tempo.
Power-thrash metal band from Kuortane, Finland, formed in 2020. They blend the melodic energy of power metal with thrash metal aggression.
Blackened death metal act from Reggio Emilia, one of the longer-running Italian extreme metal bands with roots stretching back to 2002. Confusion Gods has spent over two decades crafting dark, uncompromising extreme metal from Emilia-Romagna.
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