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Resuscitation is a death metal trio from Meeuwen, Limburg, Belgium, formed in 1997, whose sound draws on black metal dissonance alongside old-school death metal brutality. Signed to Iron Bonehead Productions, they released the 7-inch 'Eviscerated Divinity' in 2015, featuring themes of Satanism and darkness.
Boston's Retained Surgical Instrument arrived in 2024 bearing one of extreme metal's most viscerally clinical names, pairing death metal's crushing weight with grindcore's velocity and brevity. Their medical horror conceptual framing is a tradition in goregrind and gore-death, but the name itself is precise enough to feel genuinely unsettling. A new contender in Boston's increasingly active brutal underground.
Thrash metal band from Franco da Rocha, São Paulo, formed in 2006, originally operating as Retaliator before adopting the Portuguese name. Their 2015 debut full-length Insane Thrash was released on CD through American Line Productions in a limited edition of 500 copies, and they followed it with the five-track EP Progresso Carregado de Morte in 2020.
Retaliate was a death metal and hardcore band from Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium, active from 2000 to 2006 with a one-time reunion show in 2008. Released on Filled with Hate Records, the band channeled themes of societal collapse and anger, with 'Why We Hate' among their known releases.
Death/thrash metal band from Joinville, Santa Catarina, founded by guitarist Edson Souza and bassist Andrei Ruan de Souza, with drummer Claudio Wurfel completing the lineup in 2015. The band released Stream of Excrements in October 2016 and NECROPOLIS in October 2020, drawing from the classic death and thrash metal of the 1980s and 1990s.
Retaliator is a death/thrash metal band from Marbella on the Costa del Sol in Andalusia, Spain, formed in 2025. The band channels extreme metal aggression from the sun-soaked Andalusian coast.
Death/thrash metal band from Belém, Pará, active from 1993, with a lineup that included vocalist Everaldo Nascimento, guitarists Luciano Arakaty and Espeto Alfaia, and bassist Marcão Karas. Their album Ancient Glorious Death compiles studio recordings from 1993 and 1994 made at Estúdio Edgar Proença (FUNTELPA) in Belém, along with live material from 2001.
Death metal and grindcore band from Curitiba, Paraná, whose lineup includes vocalist Larissa Pires, guitarist Felis Possesso, bassist Cristiano Deathreisen, and drummer Leonardo Freitas. The band released their self-titled debut in July 2012, followed by the full-length Decomposição Brutal in July 2016, both available through their Bandcamp page.
Power metal band from London, formed in 2026. Their provocatively named project delivers anthemic power metal from the UK capital.
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