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Berlin's Placenta has evolved from death-thrash-groove origins into a more deathcore-oriented sound, reflecting the German capital's tendency toward genre mutation. Their stylistic shape-shifting mirrors Berlin's own constantly transforming cultural landscape.
Placenta was a female-fronted thrash metal quintet from Belo Horizonte active in the mid-1980s, making them one of the early all-women metal acts to emerge from the Brazilian underground. Their sole documented release is the 1987 rehearsal demo Madness in the Bus, a raw document that touched on themes from politics to Satanism, though an unofficial self-titled CD from 1992 is also known to exist.
An Augsburg veteran since 2001, Placid Silence has been crafting melodic heavy metal with hard rock sensibility for over two decades. Their Bavarian Swabian roots run deep, and their longevity makes them a cornerstone of the regional melodic metal scene.
Black metal band from Olsztyn, Poland, formed in 2013, whose name means 'plague' in Polish. They deliver pestilent black metal from the Warmian-Masurian region of northeastern Poland.
Plagia is a depressive black metal project from León, Guanajuato, Mexico. The project released the demo Falling into Darkness and the full-length One Last Chess - Part I, both in 2018, on an independent basis.
Thrash and death metal band from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2017. They bring a punishing blend of thrash aggression and death metal brutality from the heart of the Balkans.
A 2023 melodic death metal project out of Fribourg, Plague Incarnate draws from the Scandinavian melodeath playbook — interlocking guitar harmonies, blast-to-groove dynamics, and cathartic melodic breaks. Their bilingual French-German Swiss setting adds a unique cultural dimension to their sound.
Syracuse's Plague Mask has been cultivating a blackened doom sludge pestilence since 2012 — slow, harrowing, and suffused with the kind of upstate New York despair that only January in that city can produce.
Black and death metal band from Turin, Italy, formed in 2018, evoking the plague-era religious orders through pestilent extreme metal. They bring medieval darkness to the Piedmontese metal scene.
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