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Grindcore and brutal death metal band from London, active since 2016. Their albums A Jigsaw of a Flock of Geese and Leftover Pieces deliver grinding extremity from the London underground.
German slam/brutal death metal and deathcore band from Cologne, formed in 2012. They specialize in extreme, deliberately provocative brutal death metal with slam breakdowns.
Palermo-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2019, 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.
Brutal death metal outfit from Belém, Pará, Brazil, formed in 2015 and released via Necropsy Records. Their debut EP Blood Stool (2015) delivers four tracks of compact, technically-inflected brutality in the tradition of the Brazilian extreme underground. The band has been on hold since the mid-2010s.
Punishing brutal death metal from Fgura, formed in 2025. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Brutal death metal act from Neunkirchen, Austria, formed in 2021, delivering German-language extreme metal. Their material pairs poetically titled tracks with the crushing, guttural intensity of brutal death metal.
French extreme metal band from Saint-Étienne, active since 2011, whose sound evolved from black/death metal toward brutal death metal and grindcore. They have become one of the most recognized acts in the French brutal death metal scene.
German brutal death metal and hardcore band from Düsseldorf, formed in 2016. They merge the extremity of brutal death metal with hardcore's confrontational energy.
Crushing Brutal Deathcore from Orange, California / West Jordan, Utah / Houston.
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