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Tempe, Arizona's Eye Rake formed in 2016 with one foot in thrash and one in the reckless energy of crossover, a combination well-suited to the desert heat of the Phoenix metro. Their music hits with the blunt efficiency of early DRI and Wehrmacht — fast, nasty, and entirely uninterested in subtlety.
Death metal and grindcore act from Bremen in northern Germany, delivering chaotic extremity since 2017. Their playful phonetic name conceals the sonic violence of their grinding death metal assault.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Udine-based death metal act channels punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Active since 2017, primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Sludge/stoner metal band from Požarevac in central Serbia, active since 2015. Their sound channels oppressive sludge weight and stoner grooves from the Braničevo district east of Belgrade.
Thrash metal band from Lisbon, Portugal active since 2017. Their sound delivers classic thrash metal aggression from the Portuguese capital.
Roman death/thrash metal band whose 2013 Prosthetic Records debut Drones of the Awakening was hailed as representing the next wave of Italian extreme metal. The eleven-track, 48-minute album delivers blistering technical precision across tracks like "Rise of the Orgamechanism" and "Dawn of the Promethean Artilect."
The Swedish city of Västerås serves as headquarters for this black metal, death metal, and melodic black metal operation, whose arsenal includes second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels death metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2013, based in Lecco, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
The Italian city of Ancona serves as headquarters for this death metal, groove metal, and metalcore operation, whose arsenal includes Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
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