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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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Brutal death metal band from the southern Bulgarian city of Kardzhali, active since 2021. Their punishing extremity channels death metal's most violent impulses from a region near the Greek and Turkish borders.
Death metal band from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, formed in 2024, bringing fresh brutality to the region's nascent extreme metal underground.
Curwensville, Pennsylvania project formed in 2025 that fuses industrial doom and death metal, layering mechanized textures over slow, crushing heaviness.
Subache craft industrial doom metal from Freiburg im Breisgau, fusing the mechanical textures of industrial music with doom's crushing weight. Active since 2017, they bring a distinctive hybrid to the Black Forest region's metal underground.
Power metal band from the tiny Tyrolean village of Sankt Ulrich am Pillersee, formed in 2016. Their approach brings the genre's signature soaring melodies and driving energy to one of Austria's most improbable metal outposts.
New Hampshire slam and brutal death metal band formed in 2025, embracing the genre's signature down-tuned guitars, guttural vocals, and rhythmically punishing breakdowns.
Brutal death metal band from Garrett, Indiana, formed in 2013, delivering relentless, technically driven extremity within the brutal death metal tradition.
Molfetta's Subconscious Deceit merge metalcore, progressive, and thrash metal from the Bari coast since 2016. Their name of hidden treachery channels deceptive compositional shifts through Pugliese multi-genre sophistication.
San Jose, California death/thrash metal band formed in 2014, blending the technical ferocity of Bay Area thrash with old-school death metal brutality.
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