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Crematory was a black/death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active in the early 1990s. The independent band explored Satanic themes and released rehearsal material before splitting up.
El Paso's Crematory Digestor churn out filthy death metal and grindcore from the Texas-Mexico borderland underground. Their music is unrelenting and grimy, rooted in the low-budget brutality of regional extreme metal.
Costa Mesa, California's Crematory Stench deliver old-school death metal with an emphasis on putrid atmosphere and lurching, mid-paced heaviness. They draw from the morbid tradition of early Florida and Swedish death metal forebears.
Death-thrash metal band from Kiiminki near Oulu, Finland, active since 2009. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from northern Finland.
Folk and symphonic metal band from the Bologna and Ravenna area, formed in 2017. Cremisi weaves folk instrumentation and orchestral elements into a heavy metal framework from Emilia-Romagna.
Death metal band from Olesa de Montserrat near Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2016. They deliver death metal aggression from the shadow of Montserrat mountain.
Death metal band from Wales, formed in 2023. They deliver crushing death metal from the Welsh underground.
Venomous Progressive Death / Black Metal from Fort Worth.
Crente is an extreme metal band from João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, formed around 2022–2023 by members including Juan Apolinario (ex-Insecticida) and Marciel Argentina (Tiranicídio). The trio blends death and thrash metal under the sardonic self-description of "extreme gospel music," and released the compilation album Analects in October 2023, collecting their recorded output up to that point.
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