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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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Phoenix's Enfuckment has been delivering slam and brutal death metal in its most grotesque form since 2013, combining bowel-shaking low tunings with suffocating, gore-drenched aesthetics. Their desert origins haven't softened them in the slightest.
Byron Center, Michigan's Engorged Cadaver has been putrefying the West Michigan metal underground with brutal death metal since 2010, favoring pulverizing low-end and gore-obsessed imagery. Their sound is unambiguous in its intent — relentless, anatomically specific, and thoroughly disgusting.
San Diego's Engorged Emesis occupies the most extreme end of the brutal death metal spectrum, building compositions around gut-punch slams and inhuman gutturals. Their California origin hasn't mellowed them — this is extreme metal stripped of any mercy.
Johnson City's Engulfed in Blackness bring Appalachian menace to brutal death metal, combining slamming breakdowns and relentlessly heavy riffwork with the raw ferocity of the Tennessee underground.
Born in Baltimore in 2021, Engulfed in Hate fuses brutal death metal's punishing low end with deathcore's structural violence, channeling the city's aggression into a suffocating sonic barrage.
Evansville's Engutturalment Cephaloslamectomy is exactly what the name promises — Indiana slam death metal taken to absurdist extremes, pairing guttural vocal savagery with knuckle-dragging slam breakdowns.
Tucson's Enmity has been pummeling the Southwest since 2006 with uncompromising brutal death metal — relentlessly down-tuned guitars, blastbeat onslaughts, and a grinding low-end designed to physically overwhelm.
New York's Enterocele is a slam and brutal death metal project that leans hard into the grotesque physicality the genre demands — bowel-deep gutturals, churning slam riffs, and the kind of blunt-force heaviness that makes polite music fans uncomfortable. Active since 2021.
Straddling the line between brutal death metal and death metal, this Ukrainian actfrom Kyiv fuses technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2024, and their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
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