Exhumed’s Matt Harvey is among the most devoted dying metallic freaks on the market, which is why he is the perfect man to tout the newest and best within the scene along with his picks for the ten Greatest New Demise Metallic Bands of the Final 10 Years.
This specific interval of dying metallic — a style that’s approaching its fortieth anniversary in 2025 (utilizing Possessed’s Seven Church buildings because the benchmark) — has been among the finest eras in its historical past. It is easy to get misplaced in really helpful artist tabs on streaming companies or these YouTube sidebar suggestion wormholes, discovering an infinite torrent of thrilling new dying metallic, with many artists placing a recent coat of paint on the old fashioned sound.
A minimum of, that is what Harvey’s checklist largely factors to, shy on crisp, polished dying metallic with a lot of guitar wankery and overrun with dirty slop! It is all concerning the ooze, people.
All this as Exhumed’s eighth album, To the Useless, drops Oct. 21 on Relapse Data. Get a style with the music video for the devastating “Drained of Shade” immediately under and get your copy right here.
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Notice: This checklist is for bands who launched their first full size album in 2013 or later. Effectively, largely… It is okay Matt, guidelines are supposed to be damaged!
Exhumed, “Drained of Shade”
Head right here to hearken to and observe Loudwire’s Trendy Demise Metallic (’20-’22) playlist, that includes Exhumed and much more. Preserve scrolling to see Matt Harvey’s picks!
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Mortuous
I’m deeply biased in favor of this band because it was fashioned by my outdated pal and ex-Exhumed drummer Col Jones (who’s long-since been changed by the powerhouse dying metallic machine Chad Gailey of Necrot) and guitarist Colin Tarvin. They nonetheless function ex-Exhumed guitarist Mike Beams as their main contributing songwriter (the person behind a few of our greatest songs from Anatomy Is Future and Slaughtercult, corresponding to “The Matter of Splatter” and “Solid in Hearth”).
Not solely are they unspeakably heavy and brutal, listening to their new album Upon Desolation appears like I am hanging out with an outdated pal as he reveals me riff after devastating riff he is been engaged on.
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Aseptic
This sadly defunct band from my hometown of San Jose, Calif., actually scratched an itch for me.
Rawer than uncooked, their simplistic, knuckle-dragging method to dying metallic owed extra to the style’s demo days than what folks generally consult with as “OSDM” (Previous Faculty Demise Metallic).
Alternately creaky and cavernous then feral and aggressive, the band sounds always getting ready to derailing. Their white-knuckle, intensity-over-dexterity is strictly what I really like in a dying metallic band.
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Necrot
What extra may be mentioned about these guys? Seeing them ascend to the higher echelons of the brand new technology of dying metallic virtually makes me suppose that there is some justice on this loopy, blended up world.
Of all of the bands on this checklist, Necrot are the one which I get probably the most “evil” vibes from. Sonny can also be such an underrated guitarist — even by me at first. Once I first heard he was the guitarist of the dying metallic band my mates have been raving about, my preliminary response was, “What does Sonny from Saviours learn about dying Metallic?”
After listening to their Into the Labyrinth demo, I received my reply: He is aware of A FUCKING LOT.
Touring with these guys was each a pleasure and a bit scary. As a lot as I really like their music and them as folks, following them onstage is daunting to say the least!
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Smash
One other band helmed by an outdated pal, Smash are incomparably filthy.
I’ve identified Mike “Abominator” Nelson for the reason that Sore For Days demo by Gasp (HIGHLY FUCKING RECOMMENDED LISTENING) and performed with him in Gravehill as Exhumed was gathering steam earlier than 2011’s All Guts, No Glory document.
Smash are the audio equal of being chained up and dragged by means of an open sewer clogged with rotting our bodies. I at all times really feel like I have to take a bathe after I hearken to the band, which is excessive reward certainly.
I feel they tune to Z flat demolished or one thing — every part is decrease than low, fouler than foul and performed loosely. If you happen to crave filth, that is the band for you.
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Dipygus
Clearly, I am not an goal supply for this checklist, as I helped document their Bushmeat document.
If you happen to like dying metallic that pushes, pulls and oozes by means of frantically flailing sections [Editor’s note: Are you trying to seduce us, Matt?] and in addition crushes with revolting heaviness [Another editor’s note: It’s working], you may’t go fallacious with this band.
Definitely the heirs to luminaries corresponding to Post-mortem and Impetigo, there’s one thing distinctively crude about their musick that’s actually compelling. The band has a bizarre kind of late ‘70s dirty movie over every part they do they usually make use of plenty of distinctive imagery and lyrical content material that is refreshingly, sincerely fucking bizarre.
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Undergang
Perhaps these guys have been round for greater than 10 years however… fuggit.
You need gross, oozing riffs? You need disgusting, horrific vocals? You need pummeling, intense drums that shatter your cranium like a blood-soaked hammer?
In fact you do! Otherwise you would not be studying this checklist. I do know it is a no-brainer, however I am glad so as to add my voice to the refrain of dying metallic freaks that proclaim how a lot this band guidelines.
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Noisem
Earlier than we poached Noisem’s Sebastian Phillips for the second guitar spot in Exhumed, I watched these boys completely destroy each night time on the tour we did with them, Obituary and Carcass.
There is a bristling aggression to their information — it sounds just like the band is attempting to bash by means of your audio system to tear into your room and trash the place. There is a pure punk power right here, a vibe that owes as a lot to The Stooges and The Ramones because it does to the plain reference factors, Repulsion, early Kreator and Sepultura in addition to the early Earache ouvre (together with the pure hardcore releases from Heresy, Intense Diploma and the like).
I like quick music that does not sacrifice depth for velocity and that is precisely what the Noise Boys do.
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Galvanizer
Talking of quick music… Galvanizer got here on my radar fairly not too long ago and holy fucking shit. This band has received some FUCKING RIFFS.
They blur the dying / thrash / grind line in a means that jogs my memory of Exhumed whereas sounding nothing like us in any respect. It’s someplace between Finnish and Swedish dying metallic, razor-sharp Thrash and Utopia Banished / Concord Corruption period Napalm Demise. This band will make you wanna smash your furnishings and slaughter anybody who will get in your means.
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Cerebral Rot
I really like aggressive stuff, however I additionally love stuff that simply sounds gross. Cerebral Rot simply sound gross.
Once more, this can be sort of an apparent choose, however I’ll be damned if their riffs and association decisions aren’t simply disgusting. And did I point out the vocals? Totally revolting. What these guys lack in persistent velocity, they make up for in pure sliminess.
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Morgue Breath
I noticed these guys play a home present in my neck of the woods (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) they usually tore my face off.
Technically, they could be a grindcore band, however they’re straddling the road between dying metallic and grind simply completely…
’89 Napalm Demise, particularly the Mentally Murdered EP, had a MASSIVE affect on me and by extension Exhumed and these guys mix the deathly riffs of that EP and Symphonies of Illness (by that one band… identify escapes me in the mean time) with the blurry whirlwind tempos of From Enslavement to Obliteration the place 45-second songs rip by means of your ears and mind in speedy, dizzying succession earlier than dropping into an unspeakably catchy mosh part.
It is like they began their band with the thought, “Let’s simply play shit that Matt Harvey is gonna fucking lose his thoughts over.”
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Honorable Mentions
Bands that also needs to have been on this checklist, however Loudwire solely requested for 10…
Cartilage – Extremely brutal inheritors of the Bay Space gore metallic vibe
Laceration – Thrashy, catchy rapid-fire DM insanity
Cemetery Filth – OSDM with actual fucking hooks and vibe
Oath of Cruelty – Proto-death metallic within the Cruel and early Kreator vein, however FASTER
Dreadful Destiny – Inheritors of the Cruel vibe with numerous evil, hooky riffs
Hooded Menace – I am not one for doom-anything normally, however FUUUUUUCK, dude — So heavy
Coffins – I’m undecided if I am adhering to the “previous 10 years” factor, however when a band is that this heavy, so who fucking cares?
Nauseator – Disbanded however disgusting weirdo death-grind for sleazoid creeps solely
Miasmal -Sadly, a defunct Swedish DM band with a tremendous rock ‘n’ roll / crust-punk angle
Minimize Up – Early ‘90s Napalm Demise meets Slayer meets sensible leads and the pummeling drumming of Tobias from Vomitory
Mammoth Grinder – Tough and prepared, punk-infused, no-fucks-given uncooked dying metallic
Fetid – Simply gross, fucking disgusting dying metallic
Witch Vomit – Illness meets evil = nice dying metallic
Mortal Wound – Slightly extra on the “brutal” facet, however uncooked, highly effective and cruel
Molder – Sick Chicago freaks with among the grossest vocals taking place proper now
