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Moscow-based brutal death metal and death metal act, active since 2019 delivering technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most extreme metal communities, their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Death metal and grindcore act from Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, freshly formed in 2025 with a machine-like approach to extreme metal. Their name evokes the relentless, mechanical aggression that drives their blend of death metal and grindcore.
Devotees of death metal, groove metal, and melodic death metal, this Swedish outfit from Örebro has been refining their craft since 2017. Their sound hinges on Florida-school brutality with modern precision, delivered with unrelenting drive.
Melodic death/thrash metal act from Duisburg in Germany's Ruhr Valley, formed in 2022, combining harmonic guitar work with thrash velocity. Their name evokes internal conflict, driving compositions that pit melody against aggression.
Black/death metal act from Geneva, Switzerland, delivering savage, possessed extremity since 2015. Their name, derived from the Greek for one possessed by a demon, captures the frenzied, unhinged energy of their extreme metal assault.
The Italian city of Viterbo serves as headquarters for this death metal and thrash metal operation, whose arsenal includes Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Melodic death metal band from the Porto/Matosinhos area of northern Portugal, active since 2012. Their sound delivers melodic death metal from Portugal's second city on the Atlantic coast.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Castel di Lama (Ascoli Piceno)-based death metal act channels punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Active since 2021, primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Part of the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition, this act channels death metal and melodic death metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2009, based in Taunton, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
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