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Mean Groove / Nu-Metal from Dallas.
Originally formed in 1986, Necromancer finally released their debut full-length Forbidden Art in 2014 after reconnecting in 2012, a record recorded at Hanoi Studio in Rio de Janeiro and praised for channeling the old-school thrash aggression of Sodom, Destruction, and early Sepultura. Since returning to activity, they have been prolific on Bandcamp, issuing a string of EPs in 2017 including Book of the Dead and vi that continue refining their death-tinged thrash attack.
Necromancia is a death metal band from Limoges, France, formed in 2021. The band brings aggressive death metal to the Limousin region's growing extreme metal scene.
One of the earliest Brazilian thrash bands, Necromancia came together in São Bernardo do Campo in the mid-1980s and spent decades honing the groove-inflected thrash attack that defined their later records. Check Mate (2004), produced by Sepultura's Andreas Kisser, marked a high point in that evolution, blending the bone-dry riffing of Pantera-era groove metal with their São Paulo thrash roots, while Back from the Dead (2011) pushed the tempos back up toward their earliest material.
Necromancing the Stone formed in Ohio in 2014 as a supergroup drawing members from Arsis, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Absence, and Brimstone Coven, signed to Metal Blade Records. The band plays melodic death metal and power metal fused with thrash, taking a self-consciously 1980s-influenced approach that references Iron Maiden, Megadeth, and Anthrax. Their fantasy-themed songwriting and high-energy musicianship draw on the collective pedigree of their constituent members.
Necromancy from Vila Velha play a savage blend of black and death metal that leans heavily on speed and menace, releasing a steady stream of material since their 2019 debut Feathers Fall to Flames. Savage Genocide (2020) and the self-titled full-length (2022) further defined their approach — raw, uncompromising underground metal with no concessions to accessibility.
Necromaniac is a black/death/thrash metal band from London, UK, active since 2015. Their sound merges three of extreme metal's most aggressive subgenres into a relentless sonic assault.
Necromanicider were a death/doom metal band from Rio de Janeiro active across the 1990s and 2000s under various names, including an early incarnation as Geração Eleita before settling on the Necromanicider moniker. Unusual for the genre, they grounded their dark, plodding sound in Christian themes, positioning themselves as a counter-voice to the Satanic orthodoxy that dominated Brazilian extreme metal at the time.
Sala black/death metal act formed in 2017, merging atmospheric intensity with guttural extremity from the Västmanland silver-mining town. Their fusion channels the darkest impulses of both genres.
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