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Madrid-based death metal act rising from the Spanish capital's underground since 2021. Their sound embraces the morbid intensity and technical aggression that characterizes modern death metal.
Horror-themed metal band from Burgos, Spain, blending doom, gothic rock, and melodic death metal with influences from Paradise Lost, Moonspell, and Dark Tranquillity. Featuring members from Mistweaver and Nasty Surgeons, their albums including Horror Tales channel horror cinema aesthetics through heavy, atmospheric metal.
Brutal death metal and goregrind band from Brescia, Italy, combining medical horror themes with extreme sonic violence since 2013. Their grotesque thematic content matches the punishing brutality of their goregrind-infused death metal.
Death and thrash metal band from Korsor, Denmark, merging the velocity of thrash with death metal's brutality since 2019. Their Danish approach to the death-thrash crossover brings Scandinavian sensibility to a style rooted in extreme aggression.
Undecayed is a death metal band from Helsingborg, Sweden, formed in 2008 and rooted in the 1990s American death metal tradition while adding their own Scandinavian touch. Their 2025 debut In Death's Image on Lethal Scissor Records features nine tracks with cover art by Jon Zig.
Progressive death metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2020 and exploring the boundaries between technical death metal and progressive composition. Their approach balances the brutality of death metal with the structural complexity and dynamic range of progressive metal.
Death and groove metal band from Birmingham, England, active since 2012 and forging heavyweight metal from the city that birthed heavy metal itself. Their sound combines death metal's extremity with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness.
Death and thrash metal band from Castellon de la Plana, Spain, active since 2010 with six albums to their name. Their recent albums including White Silence and Devotion were mastered by Dan Swano at Endarker Studios in Sweden, recorded at their local Rocketes Studios.
Melodic death metal band from Graz, Austria, who released their 11-track debut album Origin in October 2012. Their sound balances the aggression of death metal with melodic guitar work, delivering heavy and immersive compositions across 41 minutes of material.
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