Wretched Anomaly is a Slam/Brutal Death Metal and Deathcore band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2023. The band released their self-titled debut EP in July 2024, a six-track effort, and followed it with a remix single and the 2025 single S.K.V.N.K.

Wretched Anomaly is a Slam/Brutal Death Metal and Deathcore band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2023. The band released their self-titled debut EP in July 2024, a six-track effort, and followed it with a remix single and the 2025 single S.K.V.N.K.

Dayton, Ohio black metal project formed in 2024, emerging from a Rust Belt city with a history of extreme music and channeling the primitive, cultish energy that defines the rawer end of American black metal. One of the newest acts in the file, still early in carving out their identity in the Midwest underground.

San Diego death metal and grindcore band formed in 2023, operating out of Southern California's second-largest city with a sound that fuses grindcore's hyper-compressed violence with the riff architecture of old-school death metal. A young act already tapping into the city's historically fertile underground extreme scene.

Death metal band from Orsa, Sweden active since 2018. Wretched Fate delivers old-school Swedish death metal from the small Dalarna village in the heart of Scandinavia.

Black metal band from Warrington, England formed in 2022. Wretched Malediction channels darkness and misanthropy through raw black metal from the Cheshire town.

A black metal outfit from Charleston, South Carolina, formed in 2022, dealing in raw, abrasive compositions that lean into the uglier end of the genre's American underground. Still early in their trajectory, they carry the cold, stripped-down aesthetic typical of the US black metal tape-trading circuit.

A heavy metal band from Woodland Park, New Jersey, active since 2016, drawing on classic metal traditions with a straightforward, no-frills approach that keeps the genre's foundational energy intact. Their work sits comfortably in the lineage of American heavy metal without chasing contemporary trends.

Bel Air, Maryland's Wretched Spawn have been grinding out death metal since 2016, channeling the genre's blunt-force physicality with an approach that favors meat-and-bones brutality over technical flourish. They represent the working-class side of East Coast death metal, built on riffs and relentlessness.