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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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Brutal death metal act from Slovenia, formed in 2026. Cosmic Monstrosity represents the newest wave of Slovenian death metal.
Experimental brutal death-grindcore band from Lille, France, formed in 2019. They push extreme metal boundaries through chaotic, unconventional brutality.
Endicott, New York brutal death metal outfit Course of Extinction deal in relentless blast-beat-driven carnage with no interest in melody or restraint. Their music exists to overwhelm, built for devotees of the most uncompromising end of the death metal spectrum.
Covidectomy are a US brutal death/slam deathcore project whose name announces exactly how seriously they take genre conventions. Their music wallows in the most extreme end of slam and brutal death metal, built entirely for fans of maximum grotesque density.
Brutal death metal band from Bridgwater, England, formed in 2016. They deliver punishing extremity from the Somerset coast.
Brutal death metal band from Norfolk, England, active since 2013. They deliver guttural extremity from the East Anglian countryside.
New Jersey slam death metal outfit delivering the bone-crushing breakdowns and guttural extremity the subgenre demands. Dense, low, and relentlessly heavy, their material is built for listeners with a taste for brutality.
California brutal death metal and grindcore act producing grotesque, high-speed extremity with serious underground credentials. Unrelenting in tempo and unsparing in subject matter.
Chattanooga brutal death metal outfit delivering the dense, gore-soaked extremity the genre has long trafficked in. Their sound is straightforward in the best sense — heavy, fast, and uncompromising.
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