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Liberteer is the solo grindcore project of Santa Cruz, California musician Matthew Widener, better known for his work in Exhumed and Cretin, formed around 2011. Their sole album Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees (2012, Relapse Records) is a dense political statement rooted in anarchist philosophy, notable for grafting brass instruments, banjo, and mandolin onto a blasting death-grind foundation. The project remains a curio of the early 2010s extreme metal underground for its ideological commitment and unusual instrumentation.
Libidinous Suspirus is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Belém, Pará, Brazil, founded by Brendo Marcos. The band released their EP "Church of Orgiastic Depravity" in October 2016, recorded across two studios in Belém, and have been an active presence in the extreme underground of northern Brazil since 2013.
Hungarian doom/black metal band from Szeged, formed in 2020 and merging doom's crushing weight with black metal's atmospheric hostility. Their zodiac name signals the balanced duality of their genre fusion.
Libranos del Mal is a grindcore and powerviolence band from Medellín, Colombia, formed in 2019 and signed to The Hills Are Dead Records. The band released several EPs including "Toda carne mortal debe arder" (2020), "El milagro del mayor dolor" (2023), and "Mortinato" (2025), culminating in their debut full-length "Las columnas del cielo tienen base en el abismo" in 2026.
Lice is a Swedish avant-garde black metal project assembled by Niklas Kvarforth of Shining and guitarist J of Teitanblood, alongside additional contributor Kirill Krowli. The band released their debut full-length Woe Betide You through Season of Mist in 2019, channeling the confrontational experimentalism associated with both parent bands into a form of black metal that resists easy categorization. The project represents a deliberate convergence of two distinct European extreme metal visions.
Amherst's Lich King are thrash metal's most reliably fun-loving death merchants — since 2009 they've written riff-first, pit-ready thrash with a sense of humor sharp enough to cut through the mosh pit.
Brutal Symphonic Deathcore out of Texas.
French black metal band from Marseille, active since 2017 and channeling dark, necromantic themes. Their name, meaning 'lich,' evokes the undead sorcery at the heart of their sound.
German doom/melodic death metal band from Frankfurt, formed in 2021, blending doom's crushing weight with melodeath's harmonic sophistication. Their hybrid approach bridges the gap between slow-burning heaviness and melodic intensity.
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