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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Karlshamn grindcore/black metal act launched in 2024, fusing blasting extremity with black metal's atmospheric aggression from southern Sweden. Their hybrid approach channels the confrontational energy of both traditions.
Uddevalla death metal act formed in 2012, delivering old-school brutality from Sweden's west coast. Their punishing approach channels classic Scandinavian death metal traditions.
Necrodead was a death/thrash metal band from Santiago, Chile, active from 1989 until their split in 2010. The band recorded their debut full-length Frustrated Message in mid-1994 at El Rancho Studios, collecting material written across the band's first five years, and returned over a decade later with the thrash-leaning Path to Death in 2007 on Stigma Records. Their lineup across that run included Michel Garrido on vocals and guitar alongside Javier Torres on drums, Richard Ayala on guitar, and Cristian Kohl on bass.
Necrodes is an Austrian one-person atmospheric black metal project born from the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their 2021 debut 'Isolation' channels fear, despair, and hatred into four tracks of raw and atmospheric black metal, released on a strictly limited cassette run of fifty copies.
Necrodium is a death metal band from Helsinki, active since 2020. The band delivers pure death metal from the Finnish capital.
Necrodomia is a sludge metal and drone band from London, UK, formed in 2023. Their sound merges the crushing weight of sludge metal with the sustained intensity of drone.
Rooted in the Santos metal underground, Necrodulia plays old-school black/death metal in the vein of Blasphemy, Mystifier, and Beherit. The band features a tight-knit lineup including guitarist Ailton "Tita" Silva, drummer Ezequiel Fidalgo, bassist Ludmilla Carvalho, and vocalist Rodrigo Silva, drawing from the Baixada Santista scene's long extreme metal tradition.
Dals Långed black/death metal project launched in 2025, merging atmospheric intensity with guttural extremity from the forested Dalsland region. Their remote origins lend an isolated quality to their dark fusion.
NecroEvolution is an innovative melodic death metal and synthwave project from Ulm, Germany, formed in 2025. The project fuses the aggression of melodic death metal with the retro-futuristic pulse of synthwave from the Swabian Danube city.
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