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Death metal/grindcore band from Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland, active since 2014. Their approach delivers extreme metal from the town east of Warsaw.
Rotting Misery is a death metal band from Hünxe in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2020. The band delivers bleak, heavy death metal from the Lower Rhine region.
Brutal death metal band from Leicester, England, active since 2016. Their approach delivers punishing brutality from the East Midlands.
Sludge/death metal/grindcore band from Worcester, England, with roots dating to 2005. Two decades of triple-genre extreme metal from the West Midlands represent exceptional underground longevity.
Routahauta is a death metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2025. Named combining the Finnish words for 'frost' and 'grave,' the project delivers death metal from Finland's third-largest city.
Royal Desolation is a metalcore band from the bilingual city of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, blending modern metal with catchy choruses, powerful riffing, and punctuated 80s synth sounds. Their pandemic-delayed debut album Puppet Dance contains 12 songs and was preceded by three singles, establishing their hook-driven approach to contemporary metalcore.
Rubufaso Mukufo is a grindcore and brutal death metal band from Ostrava in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic, active since 2007. Self-describing their output as 'raw, aggressive and intensive Grind Core at its best,' their releases include Violent Show 2017 and Mortal Assassinity.
Ruhje is a death metal band from the Taipalsaari/Lappeenranta area in southeastern Finland, active since 2016. Named from a Finnish word meaning roughly 'wound,' the band channels death metal from the Karelian border region.
Melodic death metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2022. Their approach channels Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from West Yorkshire.
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