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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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CellarWitch is a Portland, Oregon band operating at the intersection of black metal and brutal death metal, fusing icy tremolo aggression with pulverizing low-end brutality and a chaotic, dissonant approach that resists clean genre categorization.
Center of Disease is a brutal death metal band from Tulsa, Oklahoma, delivering hyper-blasted, technically precise carnage in the tradition of Dying Fetus and Suffocation, combining polyrhythmic riffing, slam breakdowns, and guttural vocal extremity.
Brutal death metal act from Izhevsk in the Udmurt Republic, active since 2014. Cephalic Impurity delivers punishing brutality from the Ural region.
Brutal death metal act from Vladivostok, Russia's Pacific port city, active since 2015. Cephalitis by Torture channels relentless brutality from the Far East.
San Diego, California brutal death metal and slam act formed in 2003, known for guttural vocals, down-tuned chugging riffs, and the punishing rhythmic intensity central to the slam subgenre; frequent comparisons to Devourment and Disgorge.
Brutal death metal project from Moscow and Saint Petersburg, formed in 2024. Cepharea delivers punishing death metal from Russia's two largest cities.
Brutal death metal band from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, delivering the genre's characteristic combination of blast beats, guttural vocals, and heavily downtuned riffing.
Brutal death metal act from Saint Petersburg, active since 2012. Cerebral Abscess has spent over a decade delivering punishing brutality from Russia's northern capital.
Brutal death metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2017. They deliver punishing extremity from the West Country.
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