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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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Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Manchester, England, emerging in 2025. They blend brutal death metal, deathcore, melodic death metal, and thrash into an ambitious assault.
Catatonic Profanation delivers brutal death metal with dense, churning riff patterns, guttural vocals, and blastbeat-driven drumming rooted in the genre's most abrasive underground traditions. The Kentucky project shows influence from slam and technical brutal death metal alongside pure brutality.
Brutal death metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2018. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from the Loire-Atlantique capital.
Brutal death metal act from Smederevo, Serbia, formed in 2025. Cave Disease brings fresh brutality to the Serbian death metal scene.
Indianapolis band straddling brutal death metal and deathcore, delivering low-tuned, gut-punching heaviness with technical precision and pit-focused Midwest underground energy.
Brutal death metal project from Russia, formed in 2025. Cavemode delivers cavernous, punishing death metal.
Celestial Bifurcation is a brutal death metal band from Washington state. They deliver dense, technical riffing and extreme low-end heaviness paired with blast-driven drumming.
Celestial Emissary is a brutal death metal project from Missouri. Their releases include the demo "Altar of Despair" and the album "Convergence," working in the dense, guttural style of underground brutal death metal.
Portland's Celestial Serpent combine black and death metal into a dense, riff-heavy assault emphasizing darkness and malevolence over technical showboating.
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