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Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Tilleda, Germany, formed in 2018. They blend the melodic guitar harmonies of Scandinavian death metal with modern metalcore dynamics.
German melodic death metal act active since 1988. As one of the country's earliest death metal bands, Carcades helped pioneer the genre in Germany over three and a half decades ago.
Carcará is a thrash metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, tracing their origins to 2007 under the banner "Horda Carcará." The independent act plays infernal thrash metal rooted in the aggressive 1980s tradition of heavy, thrash, and death metal, and has been an active presence in Fortaleza's underground metal scene.
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Pioneering death metal and grindcore band from Liverpool, England, formed in 1985. Carcass helped define both goregrind and melodic death metal, influencing countless extreme metal acts with their genre-shaping discography from Reek of Putrefaction through Surgical Steel.
Phoenix, Arizona brutal death metal and goregrind act whose name signals an unflinching commitment to the goriest end of the extreme metal spectrum.
Death metal band from Delft, South Holland, active since 2003. Carceri — Italian for 'prisons' — has delivered over two decades of confining death metal from the university city.
Death metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2025. A fresh addition to the growing Bulgarian death metal scene, they deliver heavy and aggressive compositions from the Balkan capital.
Death-thrash act from Balatonfűzfő, Hungary, active since 2000. Carcharias — named after the great white shark genus — has been a fixture of the Hungarian extreme metal scene for over two decades.
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