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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
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Halo (2017)
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Crust punk and thrash metal band from Oldham in Greater Manchester, England active since 2015. They deliver raw, politically charged crust-thrash from the industrial north.
Extinction Remains are a death/doom metal band from Brasília, Distrito Federal, formed in 2013. Their discography spans four releases — Ecologic Noise (2013), Genetics of Defeat (2015), Human Disaster Never Ending (2017), and the 2019 compilation Smog, which was pressed to 500 copies by Polish labels Defense Records and Mythrone Promotion. Themes of ecological collapse, misanthropy, and industrial death run throughout their catalog.
New Jersey's Extinction Ritual deal in blackened death metal, blending the corrosive atmosphere of black metal with death metal's raw, physical intensity since forming in 2024. The Garden State has a long history of feeding extreme metal to the Northeast, and Extinction Ritual are among the newest acts carrying that tradition forward.
The Russian city of Tomsk serves as headquarters for this death metal and symphonic metal operation, whose arsenal includes bombastic, film-score-scale compositions with genuine metallic weight. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Brutal death metal act from Chemnitz in Saxony, Germany, delivering punishing extremity since 2009. Their name captures the systematic elimination at the core of their brutal death metal approach.
California's Extinguish emerged in 2017 wielding a punishing fusion of death metal brutality and hardcore urgency. Their sound blurs the line between pit-ready aggression and downtuned savagery, channeling the raw, no-frills ethos of both scenes into something relentlessly physical.
Out of Lumberton, North Carolina, Extinguish the Sun craft suffocating black/death metal steeped in the murk of the rural South. Formed in 2016, they trade in corrosive riffs and bleak atmospherics that feel rooted in isolation and malevolence rather than genre exercise.
A product of Russia's vast and intense metal underground, this Ulan-Ude-based black metal act channels raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Active since 2020, lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Thrash metal band originally from Zakopane in the Polish Tatra Mountains, active since 2016. Their sound channels thrash aggression from Poland's premier highland resort town at the foot of the Tatras.
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