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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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New York brutal death and slam act formed in 2020, built on the genre's signature down-tuned groove and guttural vocal attack, representing the thriving East Coast slam underground.
Phoenix slam and brutal death metal band serving up the genre's trademark rhythmic heaviness with a desert-baked intensity since 2017, centering on monolithic, pit-ready breakdowns.
Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Spain, formed in 2019. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity through a blend of brutal death and grinding chaos.
Santa Maria brutal death and grindcore act formed in 2021, delivering chaotic, speed-driven extremity that blurs the line between the two genres with short, savage, and unrelenting compositions.
Brutal death-grindcore band from Liverpool, England, emerging in 2025. They deliver mechanized, grinding extremity from Merseyside.
Omaha brutal death metal outfit active since 2018, representing the Midwest underground with dense, punishing riffwork and guttural extremity delivered with workmanlike intensity.
Brutal death metal act from Ankara, formed in 2024. Carnophage delivers punishing brutality from the Turkish capital.
Carnopraxis is a brutal death metal band from Oberá, Misiones, formed in 2013 by Oscar Rivarola (vocals), José María Verón (guitar), Diego Duarte (bass), and Martin De Lima (drums). The band released their debut album Tortura Mental in 2013 and followed it with Obsessive Human Depravity on Grinder Cirujano Records, establishing themselves as one of the more notable extreme metal acts from Argentina's Misiones province.
Denver brutal death and grindcore band delivering unrelenting extremity at high altitude, blending the guttural density of brutal death metal with grindcore's short, savage bursts of violence and noise.
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