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Kaunas, Lithuania — black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2013, they deal in frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Death/thrash metal band from Paris, France active since 2016. They deliver fierce extreme metal from the French capital.
Extração Craniana are a goregrind band from Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, founded in 2010 by guitarist Matheus Mattos and bassist/vocalist Gabriel Zamian, with drummer Alyson Matheus completing the lineup in 2012. The band released their debut full-length Mutilação Extrema in November 2012, channeling surgical gore aesthetics as a vehicle for anti-religious and anti-moralistic themes. They have been on hold since around 2012 but maintain an active Bandcamp archive.
Milanese thrash metal veterans who have evolved from their early thrash origins into groove metal territory across their career starting in the early '90s. Their stylistic evolution mirrors the broader metal scene's shift from pure thrash toward heavier, more rhythmically focused approaches.
Extremauncion is a groove and thrash metal band from Clorinda, in the northern Argentine province of Formosa, a region with a small but active metal scene anchored by events such as the Clorinda Rock Metal Fest. The band's recorded output includes the demo Corre o muere, documented in the Encyclopaedia Metallum, and further releases catalogued on Discogs. Their city of origin, Clorinda, sits on the Paraguayan border, giving the band one of the more geographically remote bases in the Argentine metal underground.
Extreme formed in Boston during the mid-1980s and stood apart from much of the era's glossy hard rock by putting funk rhythms, Queen-sized vocal arrangements, and Nuno Bettencourt's highly technical guitar work at the center of their sound. Their self-titled debut introduced a sharp, playful version of hard rock, but Extreme II: Pornograffitti made the band internationally visible through the contrast between heavy funk-metal pieces like "Get the Funk Out" and the acoustic ballad "More Than Words." III Sides to Every Story pushed further into conceptual songwriting, progressive structures, and layered harmony, showing a broader musical ambition than the singles suggested. After a 1990s split and later reunions, Extreme continued to record and tour with Gary Cherone and Bettencourt's partnership intact, including the modern return of Six. Their catalog remains rooted in muscular riffing and showy musicianship, yet the band's strongest identity is the way it balances swagger, rhythmic pocket, ornate pop craft, theatrical rock dynamics, and a guitarist's sense of controlled excess. That mix keeps their catalog sharper than period shorthand allows.
Part of Holland's dense concentration of metal talent, this act channels death metal and doom metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2021, based in Kampen, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Extreme Hate were a death metal/grindcore band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, active from 1999 until their eventual split-up. The band recorded a series of demos between 2003 and 2006 — including a 2005 session at Barata Studio — which were later compiled on the release Open Wound / Demo(n)s. Their ferocious blend of deathgrind placed them within Belo Horizonte's storied extreme metal underground.
Ipswich-based crust punk, death metal, and grindcore act, active since 1995 delivering blast-beat saturation and screaming vocals in sub-minute bursts. Rooted in Britain's endlessly regenerating metal lineage, their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
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