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Bad Salad is a progressive metal band from Brasília, Brazil, formed in 2007 by brothers Thiago Campos (guitar) and Felipe Campos (bass) alongside drummer Caco Gonçalves. Their debut album Uncivilized (2012) earned international critical acclaim for its complex songwriting and songs regularly exceeding ten minutes, drawing comparisons to Dream Theater and Opeth; the follow-up EP Puzzled appeared in 2013. The band was handpicked by Mike Portnoy to perform on the Progressive Nation at Sea cruise in 2014, one of the few Brazilian acts to achieve that distinction.
Stoner metal band from Ipswich in Suffolk, formed in 2018, whose motto is simply follow the riff. Their releases including Nug Hungus and a live recording from The Smokehouse capture raw, riff-driven heaviness.
Spanish death metal band from Bilbao, formed in 2017. They channel death metal intensity from the industrial heart of the Basque Country.
Bad Taste is a death/thrash metal band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2017. They operate out of the South Brazilian underground, a region with a strong tradition of extreme metal, playing aggressive thrash rooted in the death metal aesthetic. The band remains active as an independent act.
Finnish melodic death metal band from Kokkola, formed in 2021. They craft melodic death metal from the Central Ostrobothnian coast.
Death metal outfit from Modena, formed in 2010. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Finnish band from Helsinki, formed in 2011, whose sound evolved from rock and hard rock toward melodic death and viking metal. Their dramatic stylistic transformation reflects an increasingly heavy and Nordic vision.
Oklahoma City death metal and hardcore band fusing the brutality of death metal with hardcore's confrontational intensity, with lyrics centering on the destructive pull of addiction.
French thrash metal band from Paris, formed in 2017. They deliver bad-tasting thrash metal from the French capital.
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