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Out of the Mouth of Graves is a South Carolina dissonant death metal trio formed in 2021, featuring members also active in Vølus and Acausal Intrusion, releasing through Vargheist Records. Their debut Harbinger Unceremonious (2022) and the Lovecraft-themed Shrines to Dagon (2023) build cavernous, off-kilter death metal around H.P. Lovecraft's horror mythos.

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Dagtum is a Filipino death metal trio from Pateros formed by veterans of the local extreme-metal underground, including Adam Carlo Along of Legion and brothers Ronaldo Jr. and Ronnel Vivo of Basalt Shrine. Their 2021 debut Revered Decadence (Eastbreath Records) folds dissonant, sludge-thickened death metal into jazz-inflected improvisation and creepy, horror-soundtrack atmosphere, drawing comparisons to Gorguts, Ulcerate and Portal.

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Voidstar Nocturnal is a progressive blackened death metal trio from Heredia, Costa Rica, formed in 2023 by musicians from Corpse Garden, Deiphago and Advent of Bedlank-adjacent scenes, evolving directly out of Corpse Garden. Guitarist Fabian Salas, bassist Kevin Moran, and drummer/synth player Erick Mejía Arguedas, joined by guest vocalist Roy Zumbado Cognuchz (TŴR, Advent of Bedlam), recorded the debut LP "Nexus Teleport Fracture" (Godz ov War Productions, 2026) live over three days at Colin Marston's Menegroth Studios in New York with no edits, triggers, or overdubs. Critics describe a surreal, psychedelic fusion of dissonant death/black metal with electro-industrial synths, post-punk/darkwave atmosphere, and a cosmic sci-fi/occult concept.

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Azure Emote is an avant-garde death metal project founded in New York in 2003 by illustrator/vocalist Mike Hrubovcak (Monstrosity, Vile) as an outlet 'to express personal negativity without the genre limitations often present within Extreme Metal.' Built around a core band with guitarist Ryan Moll, bassist Kelly Conlon, drummer Mike Heller and violinist Pete Johansen, the project layers in shifting rosters of guest musicians — female vocalists, saxophone, harmonica, keyboards — to give nearly every song its own distinct color. Releases including The Gravity of Impermanence (2013) and The Third Perspective (2020) have come out on Selfmadegod Records.

Strapping Young Lad is Devin Townsend's industrial/thrash/death metal band, active 1994–2007 with a stable lineup of Townsend, guitarist Jed Simon, bassist Byron Stroud and drummer Gene Hoglan (also of Dark Angel, Death, Testament). Built on polyrhythmic riffing and blast beats, the band is best known for a hyper-dense, multitracked "wall of sound" production style critics compared to Phil Spector and Frank Zappa, drawing on the harsh industrial/noise lineage of Foetus and White Noise. City (1997) was the critical breakthrough; The New Black (2006) leaned back into the band's tongue-in-cheek black humor before their 2007 disbandment.

Death, formed in Florida in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Chuck Schuldiner, is the foundational American death metal band - its 1987 debut Scream Bloody Gore is widely cited as one of the genre's first records. Across seven albums Schuldiner, the sole constant member, steered the band from raw, gory death metal toward an increasingly technical and progressive style, culminating in Human (1991), Individual Thought Patterns (1993) and Symbolic (1995). That later era wove jazz-fusion musicianship into extreme metal, drawing on Cynic's Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert and Steve DiGiorgio's fretless bass. The band ended with Schuldiner's death from brain cancer in 2001.

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Carnival in Coal was a French extreme/avant-garde metal duo formed in Amiens in 1995 by vocalist Arno Strobl and multi-instrumentalist Axel Wursthorn, active until 2007 (briefly revived 2014). The band mixed death and black metal with disco, pop, reggae, and chamber-rock elements under a recurring carnival/circus concept, releasing albums via War On Majors, Season of Mist, and Earache's Elitist imprint. Critics drew comparisons to Faith No More/Mr. Bungle, Frank Zappa, and John Zorn for the band's genre-defying juxtapositions.

Psychopathology Orchestra was a one-man Dijon, France project helmed by a musician known as Timmy (also of the black metal duo Astaarth), releasing a single 2003 album that pairs stop-start death/black/grind riffing with a heavy layer of synths and industrial-style programming. Mr. Bungle-indebted horn stabs, cartoonish pitch-bent keyboard tones, and a thematic fixation on psychiatric insanity give the record a theatrical, unhinged character within an otherwise French death-metal frame.

Eigenstate Zero is the solo project of Stockholm metal veteran Christian Ludvigsson, launched in 2018 to fuse progressive death metal with Frank Zappa-style jazz-fusion excess. Across Sensory Deception, Machinery of Night, The Malthusian and Shape of God Thought of Sun, Ludvigsson stacks odd time signatures and weird electronic/synth textures over a death-metal chassis, filling 'passages of eclectic weirdness' between the heavy sections.

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Zimmer's Hole is a Canadian comedic thrash/heavy metal band formed in Vancouver in 1991 as a side project for members and friends of Strapping Young Lad. The lineup pairs vocalist Chris Valagao with three Strapping Young Lad alumni — guitarist Jed Simon, bassist Byron Stroud and drummer Gene Hoglan — playing fast, riff-driven thrash laced with tongue-in-cheek humor and song parodies rather than genuine genre experimentation. Across three albums (Bound by Fire, 1997; Legion of Flames, 2001; and the Motley Crue-inverting concept record When You Were Shouting at the Devil...We Were in League with Satan, 2008) the band trades on satire and over-the-top metal imagery. The debut was produced by Devin Townsend and released on his Hevy Devy Records label.

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