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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.
Queens, New York City's Revoltage bring the borough's hardscrabble street energy to thrash metal, forging riffs that carry the density of New York hardcore's influence but the technical aggression of classic thrash. New York has a long and proud tradition of metal that hits harder and faster than its geographic peers, and Revoltage inherit that tradition with no shortage of ferocity. Their music is city-forged and uncompromising — the kind of thrash that feels like it was written on a subway platform.
Maryland's Revolted Excrescence arrived in 2021 trafficking in the most putrid end of old-school death metal — goregrind-adjacent in its devotion to grotesque aesthetics and primitive, cavern-dwelling sound design. The name alone signals what kind of death metal this is: not clinical or technical, but deliberately excessive and confrontational in the finest traditions of the genre's most extreme practitioners. Maryland's underground has always had room for bands willing to push into truly depraved territory, and Revolted Excrescence occupy that space without apology.
Progressive death/thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2009. Their politically charged name accompanies technically complex extreme metal across more than fifteen years.
Reykjavik black metal project active since 2011, contributing to Iceland's internationally celebrated extreme metal scene. Their sound carries the volcanic intensity that has made Icelandic black metal a force in the global underground.
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