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Philadelphia's Evil Nations is among the newest acts on this list, forming in 2024 with a ferocious blend of thrash, death metal, and crossover. In a city with one of the East Coast's most historically combative underground scenes, they arrive fully formed and pointed directly at the pit.
Evil Nerfal is a black metal band founded in 2007 in Pasto, in the south of Colombia, built around the duo of Brannagh Bapheker and Goat Pervertor, with themes of occultism, anti-religion, and misanthropy. The band has released four full-lengths: Hail Black Metal... Vobiscum Buer... (2016), Bellum Est Pater Omnium (2018), Sons of Chaos (Anti-Kosmic Dissonance) (2021), and Fénix Lucifer (2024).
Thrash metal veterans from Murcia, Spain, active since 2001. With over two decades of dedication, they are among the longest-running thrash acts in the Murcian underground.
Part of Holland's dense concentration of metal talent, this act channels black metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2014, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
Gothic metal and thrash metal band from Cergy near Paris, France formed in 2017. They fuse gothic atmospherics with thrash aggression from the northern suburbs of the French capital.
Death metal act from Aarhus, Denmark, formed in 2023, delivering visceral, no-frills extremity. Their provocatively bestial name sets the tone for an uncompromising approach to Scandinavian death metal.
Wielding thrash metal as their weapon, this British outfit from Belfast has been refining their craft since 2016. Their sound hinges on circle-pit anthems driven by relentless double-kick propulsion, delivered with ruthless intent.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Milan-based groove metal and symphonic metal act channels cinematic sweep and operatic vocals over thundering metal arrangements. Active since 2016, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Evil Reborn is a death metal band formed in Maturin, Monagas, Venezuela, founded by drummer Jose Maneiro and vocalist/guitarist Victor Chaparro. Their debut full-length Throne of Insanity (2016) was co-released by Evil's Records (Panama) and Satanath Records (Russia), bringing the band international underground exposure. The nine-track record draws on classic death metal aggression with artwork by Venezuelan artist John Quevedo Janssens.
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