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Bonesawer is a death metal and grindcore band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2024. The band plays aggressive extreme metal in the death/grind vein and is listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum as a current active act in Rio de Janeiro's underground scene.
French thrash metal band from Narbonne in Languedoc, formed in 2014. They deliver bone-scraping thrash metal from the Mediterranean coast of southern France.
Finnish melodic heavy/gothic metal and rock band from Alajärvi, formed in 2012. They blend melodic heaviness with gothic atmosphere from rural South Ostrobothnia.
French heavy metal and hard rock band from Pau in the Pyrenees, formed in 2023. They play earth-shaking heavy metal from the foot of the French Pyrenees.
Spanish melodic death/groove metal and metalcore band from Mieres in Asturias, formed in 2012. They blend three aggressive styles with melodic sensibility from the Asturian mining valleys.
Death metal outfit from Kraków, formed in 2020. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
German death metal band from Berlin, formed in 2013. They deliver storming death metal from Berlin's expansive extreme metal community.
BoneStripper was a thrash metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2014. The band released the EP 'A View of Heaven from a Seat in Hell' in January 2014 and was active within the Belo Horizonte metal scene before eventually splitting up.
Emerging in 2019 from Kingston upon Hull, this death metal act channels the genre's primal aggression through tight, riff-driven compositions. Their recordings carry the unmistakable weight of classic death metal.
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