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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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French band from Longpont-sur-Orge that evolved from thrash metal/crossover origins into brutal death metal. Their recent 2026 incarnation delivers crushing extremity from the Ile-de-France region.
Brutal death metal band from Paris, formed in 2022 and delivering punishing extremity from the French capital. Their morphology-referencing name suggests transformation and mutation at the core of their brutal sound.
Slam/brutal death metal and deathcore act from Kiel on Germany's Baltic coast, formed in 2024 and delivering punishing slam breakdowns and guttural brutality. Their sound mines the heaviest depths of modern extreme metal.
Technical brutal death metal band from Lausanne, Switzerland, with a catalog spanning releases like Metagonism, Dystomorph, and Paradoxide. Their complex, labyrinthine compositions deliver punishing brutality with abstract, cerebral lyrical themes.
Rochester, New York's Kalibas have been a shape-shifting force in extreme metal since 2003, starting as a brutal death/grindcore act before incorporating black metal into their arsenal. Over twenty years they've grown into something genuinely hard to classify, which is precisely their appeal.
Brutal death metal band from Lille in northern France, active since 2011 and delivering over a decade of punishing extremity. Their massacre-themed name captures the violent intensity of their northern French death metal.
Brutal death metal act from Burnley in Lancashire, formed in 2016 and trafficking in the genre's most extreme sonic violence. Their approach favors relentless blast beats, guttural vocals, and technical riffing pushed to punishing extremes.
Moscow-based brutal death metal band active since 2014, evolving from slam and brutal death metal origins toward a more technical and groove-infused approach. Their crushing, guttural style places them among the Russian capital's most punishing extreme metal acts.
Belgian old-school brutal death metal act originally active in the late 1990s before disbanding in 2000, later revived as a solo project by Gabriele Cassano. Their prolific post-revival output includes Extreme Brutality, Violently Boneless, and Decomposed Mutilated Cadavers, maintaining a relentlessly graphic and punishing approach.
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