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Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels death metal and melodic death metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2014, based in Salem, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Thrash/death metal outfit from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, delivering aggressive, high-velocity metal since 2012. Their crossover of thrash and death metal brings raw Balkan energy to the extreme metal underground.
Las Vegas's Excretory Engorgement have been in the brutal death metal trenches since 2014, proving that the desert city harbors a dedicated underground beneath the glittering resort surface. Their extreme, gore-inflected brutality is part of a long tradition of American BDM bands that find ugliness as an aesthetic virtue, and they deliver it with committed intensity.
Emerging from Stockholm, this Swedish act forges Death Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Black metal band from Avesnes-sur-Helpe in northern France, active since 2010. They deliver raw, true black metal from the rural Nord department.
Death/doom/thrash metal act from Zurich, Switzerland, active since 2005 with an extensive catalog spanning conceptual releases marked by bracketed letter titles. Their prolific output includes split releases, EPs, and full-length albums exploring dark religious and existential themes across multiple extreme metal subgenres.
Laying down tracks since 2016, this Moscow Thrash Metal outfit delivers crossover-tinged fury with punk's directness and metal's complexity. Their place within Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Excruciator formed in Beaverton, Oregon in 2009 as an explicit reaction against metalcore trends in the Portland scene, drawing instead from the 1980s speed and heavy metal traditions of bands like Judas Priest and Motörhead. Their debut full-length Devouring (2011) was released on Heavy Artillery/Earache Records and recorded with a lineup that included guitarist/vocalist Chris Birkle, and the follow-up Fighting for Evil (2017) was produced by Toxic Holocaust's Joel Grind at Falcon Recording Studios in Portland. The band briefly went on hiatus between 2013 and 2015 before regrouping for additional releases.
Thrash/black/death metal band originally from Norway, active since the mid-2000s. Their sound fuses three extreme metal pillars into a chaotic, boundary-crossing hybrid.
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