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Necrofactor is a death/thrash metal band from Chile playing a groove-driven style they describe as groove thrash. The band released the full-length Ciclo de Destrucción in November 2016, an eleven-track independent album with Spanish-language lyrics exploring themes of destruction, illness, and political defiance. The record is distributed digitally on major platforms and was stocked physically through Chilean metal label Australis Records.
Necrofag is a Black/Thrash Metal band from La Calera, Cundinamarca, Colombia, formed in 2013. The band released their debut full-length "Blood Upon Us" in 2020, following it with the "Pentagram Attack" EP on Hellforced, with lyrical themes exploring warfare, misanthropy, and the violent history of human civilization.
Necrofagus is a black metal project from Novosibirsk, Russia, active since 2020. They devour the light from Siberia's largest city.
Necrofaith is an Italian black metal project active since 2020. They explore the paradox of death and belief through their dark sonic vision.
Houston melodic black metal featuring members of Insect Warfare and Oceans of Slumber. Signed to Metal Blade Records.
Necrofiles is a heavy metal band from Pilsen, Czech Republic, active since 2018. The band delivers classic heavy metal from the brewery capital of western Bohemia.
Necrofili is a death metal band from Rieti in central Italy, active since 2016. Their provocative name accompanies uncompromising death metal from this Sabine city.
Death/thrash metal act originating from the microstate of San Marino and extending to nearby Verucchio in Rimini, formed in 2019. Their extreme output represents one of the few metal acts from the world's oldest republic.
A death metal band from the Rio de Janeiro state that was active from 1989 through 1996, leaving behind demo recordings including "Corta vida" and a live tape captured at Baraonda Shitclub in April 1996. Their sound drew from the same pit of brutality that defined the early Brazilian death metal underground.
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