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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Larissa-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2011, 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.
German brutal death metal and goregrind band from Saxony, formed in 2020. They specialize in the most extreme end of death metal with goregrind's deliberately revolting sonic aesthetic.
French slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band from Bordeaux, formed in 2025. They specialize in the most extreme end of death metal from southwestern France.
Uppsala-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2014, 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 band from Lida, Belarus, active since 2012. They deliver pulverizing brutal death metal from the western Belarusian town.
Punishing brutal death metal from Lisbon, formed in 2006. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
German melodic death metal band from the Recklinghausen-Dortmund area, formed in 2013, whose sound evolved from melodic death metal and metalcore toward brutal death metal. Their increasingly extreme trajectory reflects a deepening commitment to heaviness.
Brutal death metal band from Andenne, Belgium, fronted by guitarist/vocalist Céline Mazay and drawing inspiration from Cannibal Corpse, Abnormality, and Dying Fetus. Their catalog spans from "The Rotten One" demo through full-lengths "Blood Reign" and "Homicidal Therapy," delivering relentless death metal with a savage live presence.
Samara-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2013, 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.
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