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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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New Mexico's Emaciated have been working death metal's most uncompromising terrain since 2022 — lean, ugly, and intentional, with a name that telegraphs exactly where the sound lives.
New York's Emaciated strip death metal back to its core ugliness — no melody, no embellishment, just the rot at the genre's center delivered without apology.
Arizona's Emaciated Amalgamation fuse brutal death metal and grindcore into something even more compressed and violent than either genre alone, packing maximum destruction into the shortest possible runtime.
Battle Creek death metal newcomers Emaciated Remains arrived in 2025 with an uncompromising focus on putrefaction and decay. Raw and unapologetic, they carry the old-school spirit of Midwestern death into modern territory.
Charleston's Emaciated Remains crash goregrind sensibilities into brutal death metal, producing something visceral and relentless. Formed in 2025, the band wastes no time establishing a suffocating wall of noise.
Heavy metal and power metal band from Athens, Greece formed in 2019. They bring melodic, powerful metal from the Greek capital.
Black metal and drone act from A Coruna in Galicia, northwestern Spain, merging raw black metal with sustained, hypnotic drone textures since 2013. Their approach creates an immersive, radiating darkness from Spain's Atlantic coast.
Pittsburgh's Emanon have been sharpening their speed and thrash attack since 2005, drawing on classic American aggression and razor-tight riffwork. The band moves with the propulsive urgency of old Bay Area thrash filtered through Steel City grit.
Virginia Beach's Emanon fuse the twin-guitar gallop of power metal with the hard-nosed crunch of thrash, landing somewhere between anthem and assault. Active since 2005, they bring a coastal punch to a sound built for open roads and raised fists.
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