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Possessdeath is a death metal band from Valparaíso, Chile, featuring members Javier Arancibia and Juan Navarrete on guitar, Sergio Trujillo on bass, and Paolo Fernandez on drums. The band self-produced their debut EP The Breath of Death in 2015. They are listed on Metal Archives under the melodic death metal subgenre.
Augusta, Georgia's Possum Rot have been dragging stoner metal through the red clay of the Deep South since 2018, thick with fuzz and moving at the deliberate pace of something that doesn't need to rush. Their name is perfectly placed — there's a swampy, roadside authenticity to their sound that no amount of production polish could manufacture.
Possuído pelo Cão (PxPxCx) is a crossover thrash supergroup assembled from members of VIOLATOR, D.F.C., and Terror Revolucionário, dedicated to reviving the circle-pit mayhem of 1980s hardcore-thrash hybrids. Their 2008 debut Possessed in the Circle Pit — just over twenty minutes of anti-religious sarcasm, Hardcore energy, and Thrash riffing — also features a cover of Attitude Adjustment's "Grey World" and remains a beloved slab of Brazilian underground crossover.
Post Heaven arrived in 2023 with melodic black-death metal that sits in the liminal space between anguish and beauty — the kind of sound that surfaces when black metal's atmosphere meets death metal's brute propulsion with melody threading through both. Without a fixed city on the map, the music itself becomes the location.
Atmospheric metalcore from Longview.
Death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2017, delivering pulsating death metal from the Finnish capital. They are part of Helsinki's consistently productive extreme metal community.
Slam and brutal death metal band from London, England, formed in 2017, whose tongue-in-cheek name plays on PTSD while delivering genuinely punishing slam. They bring humorous self-awareness to the London brutal death metal scene.
Hamburg's Postabiogenetic Apotheosis arrived in 2024 with a name as complex as their progressive death metal compositions. Their cerebral approach to the genre suggests a band more aligned with the philosophical ambitions of Gorguts than the straightforward brutality of their peers.
Black metal band from Nannestad, Norway, formed in 2014, channeling the cold Romerike countryside through atmospheric black metal. They bring a decade of darkness to the Norwegian black metal tradition.
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