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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 Omsk, Siberia, active since 2011. Cranial Osteotomy — a surgical procedure — delivers clinical, punishing brutality from the western Siberian steppe.
Texas slam death metal project wallowing in the subgenre's most extreme end — bowel-deep gutturals, grinding rhythms, and pure sonic grotesquerie. Strictly underground, strictly brutal.
Lancaster, New Mexico brutal death metal band operating out of one of the Southwest's more unlikely metal outposts. Their material delivers the gore and density the genre calls for with genuine commitment.
Brutal death metal project from Russia, formed in 2026. Cranioclastectomy pushes surgical-themed brutality to its extreme.
Brutal death metal band from Plymouth, England, formed in 2022. They deliver punishing extremity from the Devon coast.
Kentucky brutal death metal band from Lawrenceburg built on relentless low-tuned punishment and guttural extremity. Their approach is unapologetically brutal, focused entirely on sonic annihilation.
Brutal death metal act from Lucerne, Switzerland, formed in 2015. They deliver punishing, low-tuned extremity through grinding riffs, guttural vocals, and relentless percussive assault.
Minnesota's Cremated blast through brutal death metal and grindcore with relentless speed and gory low-end punishment. The Lakeville act grinds bones to powder with blastbeats and cavernous downtuned savagery.
Brutal death metal band from Manchester, England, active since 2006. With two decades of punishing extremity, Crepitation are veterans of the Manchester brutal death scene.
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