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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Sickflesh deal in brutal death metal and goregrind from Nachod, combining inhuman gutturals with grinding blasts of noise. Their approach embraces the most extreme end of the death metal spectrum without compromise.
Death metal band from Lyons, Kansas, formed in 2020, carving out heavy, unrelenting material from a rural Great Plains setting far from the usual metal centers.
Moscow's Sickle of Dust craft atmospheric black metal from the Russian capital since 2017. Their name combining the harvesting tool with decay channels agricultural mortality into compositions of immersive darkness.
Catania's Sicklown navigate post-metal and sludge from volcanic Sicily since 2001. Over two decades, they have built a sound that pairs atmospheric breadth with the crushing weight that their surroundings inspire.
Fort Lauderdale death metal stalwarts with roots going back to 2002, part of the fertile South Florida scene that has produced some of the most punishing extremity in American metal history.
Long Island thrash act from Smithtown, active since 2002, drawing on New York's tradition of aggressive, East Coast thrash with a straightforward and hard-driving approach.
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin death/doom outfit formed in 2002, blending the suffocating weight of doom metal with death metal's savagery for a sound that lumbers and crushes in equal measure.
Los Angeles death metal act with a history stretching back to 2002, operating in a city with a dense extreme metal underground and bringing L.A.'s hard-edged darkness to the genre.
Sickness Within blend metalcore with thrash metal from the Silkeborg/Aarhus area of central Jutland, combining modern breakdowns with old-school velocity. Active since 2010, they bring internal infection to the Danish heavy music scene.
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