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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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Slam and brutal death metal act from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2023, delivering medically grotesque extremity. Their approach pushes brutal death metal to its most punishing, rhythmically devastating extremes.
Polish brutal death metal and death metal act, active since 2025 delivering suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Rooted in the country that produced Behemoth and Vader, each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
Exinteratus is a brutal death metal and grindcore duo from Río Bueno, Chile, formed in 2013 by Eneas and Massakre. The project debuted with the demo Ghoulish Mutilation in 2014, followed by the release Penetration Post Mortem, operating within the underground extreme metal scene of southern Chile.
Philadelphia's Existentia deal in brutal death metal of the uncompromising variety, channeling the city's long tradition of extreme music into dense, suffocating compositions built since 2020. They favor the technical precision and crushing low-end that defines the brutal death genre at its most punishing.
Brutal death metal band from Glasgow, Scotland formed in 2020. They deliver grotesque brutality from Scotland's largest city.
Zhigulevsk-based brutal death metal, death metal, and deathcore act, active since 2015 delivering technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most extreme metal communities, their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Shreveport, Louisiana's Expletive arrived in 2025 armed with brutal death metal brutality and grindcore's economical fury — a pairing that amplifies both to extremes. Shreveport has long existed in the shadow of Louisiana's better-known metal cities, and Expletive sound like a band who've internalized that chip on the shoulder.
Brutal death metal act from the Bochum/Hamm/Duisburg axis of Germany's Ruhr Valley, delivering graphically visceral extremity since 2003. Their two-decade career of uncompromising brutality makes them a veteran force in the German brutal death metal underground.
Denver's Expurgate have been delivering brutal death metal since 2020, channeling the mile-high city's growing extreme metal scene into music of extreme density and precision. Colorado's scene has expanded significantly in recent years, and Expurgate represent the kind of technical brutality that's anchored that growth.
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