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The Killing Machine is a heavy metal band from Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, formed in 2025. They deliver hard-hitting traditional heavy metal from the Sardinian capital.
Panama City, Florida's The Killing Toke have been building their sprawling black/death/doom hybrid since 2013, drawing from across the extreme metal spectrum without ever sounding scattered. Their name gestures toward the psychedelic, and indeed there's a haze running through their music that softens the brutality just enough to add disorientation to the dread. They're a singular entry in the Florida panhandle underground — a region better known for beach towns than for extreme metal.
The Kindred is a thrash/speed/death metal band from London, formed in 2019. Their music combines the velocity of speed metal with the aggression of thrash and the brutality of death metal in a ferocious triple threat.
The King Is Blind is a doom/death metal band from Essex, active since 2014. Their music merges the crushing weight and slow tempos of doom with the guttural aggression of death metal, creating a bleak and powerful sound.
Cotati, California's The King Must Die have been driving a relentless thrash metal agenda since 2014, drawing from the wine country but making something with considerably more edge. Their approach is unfussy and aggressive — Bay Area thrash DNA filtered through a decade of underground gigging and a refusal to soften the formula. The name is a provocation, and the music follows through on it.
Hard rock and heavy metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, formed in 2007. The band released the album Fight for the Life independently in 2017, and appeared on the 2020 Armadillo Records compilation A Brazilian Tribute to Deep Purple with a cover of "Hush."
The Knuts is a death metal/grindcore band from Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, formed in 2011. They combine death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaotic velocity.
The Konstellation is a progressive black/death metal band originally from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2020. They combine progressive complexity with extreme metal intensity, bridging black and death metal styles.
Sludge metal band from São Paulo, active from 2013 to approximately 2016 with a lineup of Bonga (vocals), Ale (guitars, vocals), Renato RG (bass), and Tiago (drums). Their debut release, the four-track EP Your Master is Gone..., was recorded in 2011 at Caffeine Sound Studio and released on June 24, 2013.
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