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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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San Diego's Plaguelands operates in the melancholy borderlands of depressive and post-black metal — sprawling, introspective compositions that find beauty and desolation wound together like smoke.
Oceanside's Plaguelord has been thrashing since 2019 with a coastal California aggression — hard-nosed, fast, and built for the pit, drawing on classic Bay Area and crossover traditions without apology.
Plaguemace was a Danish death metal band from Horsens, Jutland, formed in fall 2019 and signed to Napalm Records. The band released a six-track EP, Primal Priest, in 2020, followed by their debut full-length Reptilian Warlords, delivering a groove-heavy, riff-forward death metal sound with thrash metal drive. The band announced their dissolution in February 2026 after a six-year run.
Black, death, and speed metal band from Malmo, Sweden, formed in 2015, storming through the Scandinavian underground with a decade of multi-faceted extreme metal. They bring triple-genre fury from southern Sweden.
Lewisburg, West Virginia's Plaguewielder evolved from raw black metal into a blacker, more feral black/thrash hybrid — a fitting sound for a band forged in the isolated mountains of Appalachia.
Atmospheric doom and death metal band from Luxembourg, formed in 2015, wielding plague-themed atmospheric doom-death from the tiny nation. They represent the extreme metal output of one of Europe's smallest countries.
Active since 2014, Germany's Plaguewomb delivers death metal that is as visceral and uncomfortable as its name suggests. Their long gestation in the underground has produced a sound that is thoroughly uncompromising in its extremity.
Oi, hardcore punk, heavy metal, and hard rock band from Colleferro, Italy, active since 2004, blending working-class punk energy with heavy metal power. Over two decades they have maintained their street-level intensity.
Stoner and doom metal band with experimental tendencies from Lviv, Ukraine, formed in 2022, delivering heavy, psychedelic-tinged doom from the western Ukrainian cultural hub. They bring cosmic heaviness.
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