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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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Brutal death metal band from Murcia, Spain formed in 2009, with releases including Dead [Forgotten] (2009) and Risen from the Void (2015). Their nine-track sophomore album delivers groovy, technical brutality exploring dystopian and introspective themes.
Brutal death metal and goregrind trio from Spain featuring Igor on vocals and drum programming, Carlos on guitars, and Gaspar on bass. Their 2019 single Human Taxidermy showcases crushing slam and brutal death metal extremity.
Brutal death metal outfit from Wolfsberg in Austria's Carinthia region, delivering pulverizing extremity since 2018. Their relentless assault of blast beats, guttural vocals, and crushing riffs reflects the genre's most uncompromising tendencies.
Slam and brutal death metal act from Minsk, Belarus, known for their punishing, guttural assault of pig squeals, crushing breakdowns, and relentless heaviness since 2013. Their releases "Serial Urbicide" and "Butcher Basement" have earned them a dedicated following in the international slam death metal community.
Tiffin, Ohio's Extinction Agenda arrived in 2023 fusing brutal death metal and deathcore into something maximally heavy and deliberately relentless. The small-city Ohio origin underscores an underground work ethic — this is music built from the ground up with no expectation of easy attention.
Brutal death metal act from Chemnitz in Saxony, Germany, delivering punishing extremity since 2009. Their name captures the systematic elimination at the core of their brutal death metal approach.
Trollhättan's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this brutal death metal and death metal unit is among them — wielding technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality. Their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Slamming brutal death metal band from Cordoba, Spain formed in 2017. Their 2017 album Live the Infected features nine tracks of gory, relentless brutality with gore-soaked song titles and crushing slam breakdowns.
Houston's Extrathesia arrived in 2024 with brutal death metal sewn into their DNA, emerging from one of Texas's most storied extreme metal cities. Their brand of savagery leans into technical precision and gut-punch low-end, carrying on the Houston tradition of unsparing heaviness.
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