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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 band from France's Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, active since 2017. Their tongue-in-cheek name belies genuinely crushing slam death metal brutality.
San Francisco's Ominous Ruin deal in technical brutal death metal with a surgical precision that makes their most devastating passages feel almost architectural. Since 2015, they've stood as one of the Bay Area's sharpest exponents of technically demanding extremity.
Malmo brutal death metal project formed in 2026, the freshest entry in southern Sweden's extreme metal pipeline. Early material suggests an allegiance to the most punishing end of the death metal spectrum.
Northern Irish act Oncology from Coleraine specializes in punishing brutal death metal with slam influences, piling on guttural vocals and churning, downtuned riffs. Their clinical approach to sonic devastation lives up to their pathological namesake.
Onihime is a one-person brutal death/slam project based in Corrientes, Argentina, blending extreme metal with anime-themed imagery and horror. The project has released two albums, Waifu of Madness and Kult of Lamashtu, operating under the full moniker Onihime Death Cult.
Brutal death metal band from Milan, Italy, with roots dating to 2003. Over two decades of brutality from the Lombardy capital represent one of Italy's most established brutal death metal acts.
Falkirk's Operation Cunt Destroyer delivers exactly the kind of unsubtle, confrontational brutal death metal and deathcore their name promises. Their slammed-out riffs, guttural pig squeals, and relentless blast beats leave no room for nuance or restraint.
Brutal death metal band from Santander, Spain, active since 2009. Over fifteen years they have established themselves in the Cantabrian extreme metal scene with relentless brutality.
Atwater, California's Organ Harvester arrived in 2024 playing brutal death metal and goregrind with all the subtlety the name implies — grotesque, blasting, and surgically relentless. Central Valley brutality at its most visceral.
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