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Brutal death metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2018, exploring posthuman horror through devastating brutal death metal. They bring crushing extremity to Italy's largest northern city.
A veteran of the Belarusian extreme metal scene since 2003, Posthumous Blasphemer delivers a punishing hybrid of technical brutal death metal and grindcore. Their surgical precision and relentless tempo shifts place them alongside Eastern Europe's most accomplished purveyors of controlled chaos.
Death and doom metal band from Kutno, Poland, formed in 2010, delivering crushing death-doom with a philosophical edge from central Poland. Over fifteen years they have crafted weighty, contemplative extreme metal.
Funeral doom metal band from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2017, crafting glacially slow, soul-crushing funeral doom from one of Poland's cultural capitals. They represent the most extreme end of the Polish doom spectrum.
Death metal and death'n'roll band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2013, blending classic death metal brutality with the groove and swagger of death'n'roll. They are part of Berlin's diverse and prolific extreme metal community.
Thrash/death metal band from Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina, founded by guitarist Alejandro Ferrando, vocalist Adrián Flores, bassist Cristian Felici, and drummer Mario Gogniat. The band released the album Cancer of Corruption in 1995 as an independent cassette release, featuring eight tracks including 'World Without Mercy' and 'The Dark Side of Your Mind'. The band has since split up.
New England's Postmortem Defecation crash-landed in 2023 with brutal death metal and grindcore at their most deliberately offensive — goregrind aesthetics, blastbeat intensity, and the gonzo irreverence that the genre requires done with apparent conviction. The New England underground has a long history of extreme acts, and this one adds to it without apology.
Originally operating as Postmortem since 2004, this quartet from Pelotas rebranded to Postmortem Inc to avoid confusion with a German band of the same name, with the core lineup of Bruno Añaña (vocals/guitar), Douglas Veiga (drums), Mou Machado (guitar), and Juliano Pacheco (bass) having solidified around 2010. Their sound alternates between brutal, technical, and rhythmic death metal riffing, with lyrics drawing on philosophy, social violence, and the horrors of war. They released the Latin-titled EP "Atra Mors" through Rapture Records in 2013 before issuing their full-length debut "The Conqueror Worm" in 2020, a record conceptually rooted in Edgar Allan Poe's poem of the same name.
Atlanta's Postmortem Repugnance have been delivering straight death metal since 2021, operating in the no-frills tradition of bands that believe the genre's foundational elements — heavy riffs, blasting drums, guttural vocals — remain sufficient tools for genuine extremity. Georgia's extreme metal community is quietly formidable, and they're a focused, serious part of it.
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