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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Spanish brutal death metal band from Sarrià de Ter near Girona, active since 1998. With over a quarter century of brutality, they are one of Catalonia's most seasoned death metal outfits.
Estonian brutal death metal band from Tallinn, formed in 2013. They deliver devastating brutal death metal from Estonia's capital city.
Nevada death metal act Baby Autopsy leans into the deliberately confrontational naming tradition of the genre, an active project since 2022 in the sparse but determined underground metal community of the desert Southwest.
Slamming brutal death metal unit from Ried im Innkreis, Austria, formed in 2019. Their short, punishing tracks like "Consumed at Birth" trade in guttural vocals and crushing breakdowns typical of the slam underground.
Moscow-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2012, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
Santa Clarita, California death metal and grindcore band that has been grinding since 2014, adding to the San Fernando Valley's underground extreme metal presence.
New Jersey death metal outfit featuring former members of brutal death metal band Digested Flesh, releasing their debut Gateway to Pestilence in November 2013.
Bacteremia is a Brutal Death Metal band from Medellín, Colombia, formed in 2006 and signed to Permeated Records. They released their debut full-length "Cerebral Wrong Settings" in 2013, followed by "Furiously Reduced" in 2017, a nine-track album exploring themes of mankind, death, and pathology.
French brutal death metal and grindcore band from Saint-Omer in Pas-de-Calais, formed in 2017. They deliver terrifying blasts of brutal death-grind from the far north of France.
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