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Barbatos were a brutal death metal band from Jandira, a city in the greater São Paulo metropolitan area, founded by drummer Chicão and guitarist Antônio Agaci with a focus on fast, punishing music in the tradition of Brazilian brutal death. The band released a self-titled CD of eight tracks before going inactive. Their name was drawn from demonic mythology — Barbatos being one of the demons said to serve Satanquia and Lucifer — in keeping with brutal death metal's genre aesthetics.
Szeged-based stoner metal outfit active since 2012, channeling thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and a laid-back, groove-driven approach to heaviness. Their sound worships at the altar of the almighty riff, drawing from the deep wells of 1970s proto-metal and desert rock.
Detroit's Barbed Casket is an all-instrumental sludge metal project, letting the weight and texture of the music speak without vocals since forming in 2021.
Budapest-based thrash metal act active since 2015, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Hungarian filter.
Barbed Wire were a death/thrash metal band from Brasília, the Brazilian capital, operating in the underground during the mid-2010s before splitting up. Brasília has a smaller but dedicated extreme metal community, and Barbed Wire delivered the raw, aggressive blend of death and thrash that the band's name implies, in the tradition of the brutal early Brazilian extreme metal scene.
German black metal band from Offenbach am Main, formed in 2025. They represent the newest wave of German black metal emerging from the Hessian underground.
Collinsville, Illinois act Barbed Wire Sandwich occupies the convergence of slam, brutal death metal, and deathcore, bringing the genre's most physically punishing characteristics together under one deliberately confrontational name.
Named after the mystical object in Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, Baltimore's Barbelith has been exploring consciousness, astral travel, and introspection through post-black metal since 2011.
Originally rooted on Long Island and later relocating to Georgia, Barbiturate applies a dark satirical lens to avant-garde death metal, an unusual and intellectually provocative corner of the extreme underground.
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