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Revocation are a Boston, Massachusetts technical death and thrash metal band formed in 2006 by guitarist and vocalist Dave Davidson, evolving from his earlier project Cryptic Warning. Signed to Relapse Records for their 2009 debut Empire of the Obscene and later to Metal Blade Records, the band has released nine studio albums defined by intricate guitar work, progressive song structures, and intellectually engaged lyrics, with Deathless (2014) and The Outer Ones (2018) representing high points in their catalog.
Progressive metal/rock band from Ostrołęka, Poland, formed in 2026. Their approach delivers technically ambitious compositions from the northeastern Polish town.
Black/death metal band from Esteio, Rio Grande do Sul, founded in 2010 by guitarist Wagner Santos with anti-religious lyrical themes. The band issued the EP Behind the Throne of God in 2012, the EP Conqueror of the Unholy Light in 2020, and the full-length Crux Enim Est Ardere in 2022. They have shared stages with Krisiun, Marduk, Malevolent Creation, and Vital Remains, and won Metal Devastation Radio's Battle of the Bands competition in January 2020.
Progressive death metal band from Nizhny Tagil, Russia, active since 2016. Their approach pushes death metal into progressive territory from the Ural industrial city.
Death metal band from Leeds, England, active since 2011. Their long-running project delivers death metal from the West Yorkshire city.
Revoke is a groove metal band from Bad Langensalza in Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2018. The band channels heavy, rhythmic groove metal from the spa town in the Thuringian Basin.
Heavy/thrash metal band from Białystok, Poland, active since 2013. Their approach combines heavy metal with thrash aggression from northeastern Poland.
Arnold, Maryland's Revolta are a study in metamorphosis — starting as a thrash metal outfit in 2008 before gradually calcifying into the slow, swamp-thick territory of sludge metal, a transformation that mirrors how many bands of the late 2000s hardcored scene came to discover the weight of amplifiers cranked past reasonable limits. The Chesapeake Bay region has never been a hotbed of extreme metal, making Revolta's persistence across genre evolution all the more notable. Their later sludge work carries the patient fury of a band that has nothing to prove except to themselves.
Raw black metal band from Guarulhos, São Paulo, formed in 2019, releasing their three-track Demo I in October of that year. The band also appeared on the split Sem Futuro alongside Maniac Force, Gomorraa, and Escombro A.V., and released the track Uma Dor Abissal Causada pela Desgraça Neoliberal as a standalone single.
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