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Brutal death metal act from Ronse, Belgium, delivering unrelenting heaviness since 2019. Their sound channels the genre's signature low-tuned aggression and percussive intensity through a no-frills approach to extremity.
Leprosity was a brutal death metal band from Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, active from around 2000 until splitting up. The band recorded the demo "Diabolically" (2004) and contributed the track "Satan My Master" to the Bathory tribute compilation "A Tribute from the Hordes to Bathory." They are listed on Metal Archives with themes of anti-Christianity and perversion.
Champaign, Illinois's Leproso have been festering at the fringes of the Midwest death metal underground since 2010, keeping it deliberately ugly and deliberately heavy. University towns breed unlikely extremists, and this is their band.
Pittsburgh's Leprosy began as a thrash band in 2021 before the rot set in and death metal claimed them fully — a natural arc for a city whose metal history runs from Carnivore to the present. Heavy, grim, and unsentimental.
Finnish death metal/goregrind act from Helsinki, formed in 2024 and channeling visceral extremity. Their sound merges death metal's crushing heaviness with goregrind's graphic intensity.
Swedish experimental doom metal project formed in 2021, pushing doom metal into unconventional territory. Their diseased, fiery name captures the corroding, transformative character of their experimental approach.
Belarusian black metal project from Gomel exploring themes of philosophy, transgression, absurdism, and nihilism since 2016. Their releases, titled in Russian, channel raw black metal aggression through a lens of existential and philosophical darkness.
Leprovore is a death metal band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, formed in 2022 and signed to Dark Recollections Productions. The band's debut recording "Horrorreahction" was tracked at SD Studio in Salvador and features three tracks including "Epidermal Liquefied Necrosis" and "Epidemic Damnation." Their lyrical themes center on horror, death, blasphemy, and zombie cult.
Lerna is a one-person atmospheric black metal project from the São Paulo area of Brazil, formed in 2019 under the name Cunhambebe. Rooted in antifascist and anarchist politics, the project released "Violência da Miséria" in October 2019 and followed it with the EP "Sede de Sangue" (2021) and the single "Guerra Infinita" (2022). Lerna is associated with Escafismo Records and is considered part of Brazil's politically charged raw black metal underground.
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