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Unreasonable Doubt (2024)
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A Love To Kill For (2023)
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Obnoxious (2022)
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Technical grindcore/death metal band from the Leeds/Bradford area, formed in 2024. Their approach combines grindcore's velocity with death metal's technicality from West Yorkshire.
Thrash metal band from Sumaré, São Paulo, formed in 2008, with a lineup of vocalist/guitarist André, guitarist Ruy, bassist Thiago 'Alemão', and drummer Lucas 'Créu'. The band released a demo in 2011 and the full-length Aterrorize in 2015, delivering old-school thrash with sharp guitar riffs and modern production. Members also participate in the São Paulo death metal formation Disformes.
Reticulate is a death metal band from Barcelona, Spain. The band delivers technical death metal from the Catalan capital's thriving extreme metal community.
Grindcore band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2023. Their approach delivers high-velocity extreme music from the Hungarian capital.
Pagan metal band from Toruń, Poland, formed in 2021. Named after the historic Slavic pagan temple, their approach channels pre-Christian tradition through heavy metal.
Retrace is a heavy metal band from Jönköping, Sweden, active since 2012. The band plays traditional heavy metal from the southern Swedish lakeside city, keeping the classic metal flame burning in Småland.
Esch-sur-Alzette deathcore act formed in 2014, one of Luxembourg's few representatives in the extreme metal underground. Their punishing breakdowns and aggressive delivery carry the genre's flag from the Grand Duchy.
Kremenchuk death metal project launched in 2025, delivering brutal extremity from central Ukraine. Their punishing approach channels the newest wave of Ukrainian death metal.
Los Angeles' Retribution have been carrying the thrash flag since 2001, a quarter-century-plus of riff-first aggression in a city that has always had an undercurrent of thrash running beneath its more visible metal scenes. Their staying power across more than two decades marks them as veterans in a subgenre that burns bright and fast. Old-school conviction with Los Angeles edge.
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