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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Philadelphia's Everwinter has been delivering raw, frost-bitten black metal since 2019, drawing on Philly's historically fierce underground scene while positioning themselves within the genre's most uncompromising traditions. Their name perfectly captures a black metal worldview where winter is not a season but a permanent spiritual condition.
Crust punk, death metal, and grindcore band from the UK formed in 2020. They deliver raw, punishing extremity across multiple genres.
One of the newest projects on this list, Cleveland, Tennessee's Every Sword Unsheathed formed in 2025 with a black/doom metal combination that suits the drama of their name. The Appalachian foothills of eastern Tennessee carry a weight of history and fatalism that resonates naturally with a sound built on slow, oppressive riffs and black metal ferocity.
Melodic death metal and metalcore act from Berlin, Germany, blending harmonic richness with aggressive energy since 2017. Their name captures the relentless, daily grind that fuels their emotionally charged metal.
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Eindhoven, Netherlands — death metal, deathcore, and groove metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2022, they deal in punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Depressive/post-black metal project from the university town of Ilmenau in Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2024. Their nihilistic name drives a sound that merges depressive black metal's emotional extremity with the textural breadth of post-black metal.
Formed in 2024, this Wejherowo Brutal Death Metal and Death Metal outfit delivers labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Their place within Poland's relentlessly productive underground speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Chicago death/thrash outfit Everything Must Die has been doing exactly what the name promises since 2013, tearing through Illinois' storied metal underground with the crossbred fury of two of extreme metal's most unforgiving subgenres. Theirs is the kind of band that exists at the intersection of cerebral and brutal, the city's industrial backbone audible in every riff.
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