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Divine (2024)
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SERPENT (2025)
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Devil´s Bell (2022)
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Meriden, Connecticut death metal outfit Kayotik have been refining a hard-hitting approach to the genre since 2016 — straightforward, brutal, and built on the fundamentals that make death metal work.
Boston's Kazmi draw from an unusually wide arsenal — melodic death, thrash, metalcore — blending these into a hybrid sound that captures the ambition of the city's dense and competitive extreme metal scene since 2016.
Keen of the Crow occupy the mournful territory where doom metal and death metal converge, a Los Angeles act formed in 2020 with a sound steeped in crushing grief and slow-burning heaviness.
Aurora, Illinois heavy metal outfit Keeper lean into the classic and the traditional, delivering no-frills, riff-driven metal with the kind of earnest conviction that has defined the genre since its origins.
Emerging from Indian Land, South Carolina in 2025, Keinyoriik traffic in the ferocious overlap of black and death metal — a new band already mining the genre's most extreme and uncompromising corridors.
Louisville, Kentucky's Kentucky Chainsaw do exactly what their name implies — grinding, gore-soaked death metal with zero ornamentation and maximum brutality, formed in 2024 and already swinging hard.
San Francisco's Kerasphorus are steeped in the most blasphemous traditions of black/death metal, channeling a chaotic, bestial energy since 2016 that puts them squarely in the lineage of war metal extremity.
Oxnard, California's Kermz specialize in the most physically punishing end of the death metal spectrum — slam-heavy and brutal, with song structures built to maximize impact and bodily devastation since 2014.
Seattle's Kerr Ring weave folk storytelling, gothic atmosphere, and symphonic grandeur into a richly layered sound, standing out in the Pacific Northwest scene since 2019 with music that's ornate and emotionally resonant.
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