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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Easthampton, Massachusetts' Exhumed have been carving out death metal territory since 1998, establishing a long-running presence in the New England underground with a style that favors downtuned aggression and unrelenting rhythmic punishment. Decades of persistence have made them one of the region's most enduring extreme metal acts.
Death metal band from France with roots going back to 1998. As one of the earlier French death metal acts, they carry decades of extreme metal heritage.
Black/death metal act from Velez-Malaga on the Costa del Sol, Spain, active since 2012. They channel extreme metal darkness from the sun-drenched Andalusian coast.
Black/death metal project from Artemare in the Ain department of France, launched in 2025. They bring fresh extreme metal from the rural Rhone-Alpes foothills.
Melodic death metal act from Wiesbaden in Hesse, Germany, crafting harmonically rich, aggressive compositions since 2019. Their exhumation-themed name drives a sound that unearths melodic beauty from beneath layers of death metal aggression.
When ExHydra emerged in 2020 from Trondheim, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal — all raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Melodic death metal act from Minsk, Belarus, crafting harmonically rich, aggressive compositions since 2017. Their approach draws from the melodic death metal tradition with Scandinavian-inspired dual-guitar harmonies filtered through a Belarusian perspective.
A product of Russia's vast and intense metal underground, this Moscow-based death metal and progressive metal act channels Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Active since 2016, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
In existence since 2022, this Birmingham Heavy Metal outfit delivers iron-clad riffs and soaring melodic passages. Their place within the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
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