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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Death/doom metal band from Kotka, Finland active since 2013, featuring dual vocalists Sara Strommer and Olli Suvanto. Their 2015 album Through Infant Eyes blends death metal intensity with atmospheric doom across eight tracks.
Wilkesboro, North Carolina's End of All sit at the crossroads of death metal and deathcore, delivering the kind of heavy that's both technically demanding and brutally direct. A newer act already staking out their corner of the genre.
Berkeley's End of All deal in straightforward, no-frills death metal shaped by the Bay Area's long tradition of extreme heaviness. Formed in 2024, they're a recent addition to a scene that has never stopped producing formidable death metal.
Boise, Idaho's End of All Flesh have been one of the Treasure Valley's most unrelenting brutal death metal acts since 2006, bringing big-city heaviness to a region not typically associated with extreme metal's most punishing extremes.
Symphonic metal act from Gemund in the Eifel region of western Germany, crafting orchestrally enriched metal since 2008. Their name captures the grand, climactic quality of their symphonic compositions.
Black, gothic, and symphonic metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece launched in 2024. They fuse multiple dark metal styles from northern Greece.
Death metal and hardcore act from Bottrop in Germany's Ruhr Valley, merging the aggression of both genres since 2020. Their apocalyptic name drives a sound that channels the fury of both death metal and hardcore punk.
Udine-based black metal act, active since 2018 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in the Mediterranean peninsula's diverse metal ecosystem, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
German act from Goppingen that evolved from doom metal origins into gothic and alternative rock territory since 2013. Their stylistic journey reflects a broadening of vision from crushing heaviness toward more atmospheric, accessible songwriting.
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