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Founded in 1989 by guitarist John McEntee, Incantation are one of the foundational acts of American death metal, shaping the genre's cavernous, doom-infused extreme with their 1992 debut Onward to Golgotha. McEntee is the sole continuous member across twelve studio albums, including Mortal Throne of Nazarene and the 2023 Relapse Records release Unholy Deification, and the band remains a definitive influence on underground death metal worldwide.
Incinerating Prophecies is a brutal death metal band from Barranquilla, Colombia, active since 2009. The band released two full-lengths — Slay the Damned Impostor (2011) via North American label Sevared Records and Depravity Incarnate (2014) via Italian label Death Metal Industry — preceded by the demo Ritual Slave (2010).
Noisy powerviolence from San Antonio.
Chicago's Indian formed in 2003 and became a defining force in American sludge and doom metal through a series of increasingly punishing releases. Their 2014 album From All Purity, widely considered their finest work, pushed their suffocating guitar tone and confrontational atmosphere to its furthest extreme before the band's initial hiatus; they reunited and released further material before ultimately disbanding in 2022.
Induce Terror is a brutal death metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, formed in 2019. The band released the EP New World Order in 2020, expanding on two earlier singles from the same year.
Ferocious Death / Thrash Metal from Bozeman, Montana / Richmond, Virginia / Houston.
Infernal Cemetery is a blasphemous black/death metal band from Coronel Marcelino Mariduena in Ecuador's Guayas province, formed in 2024. Their debut release "Necrosemen of Impurity Genocide" delivers fast riffing over blasting double bass drums with lyrics centered on occultism, Satanism, and anti-Christianity, positioning the band as part of the rotten extreme metal underground of South America.
Formed from the ashes of Imprecation by members Wes Weaver and Jim Case. A key early release for the Houston death metal underground.
Venomous Black Metal out of Texas.
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