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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 and deathcore band from Breda, Netherlands, formed in 2018, delivering medically themed extremity from North Brabant. Their clinical name evokes the tissue necrosis that matches their punishing sound.
Hlinsko's Prolapsed trades in the most extreme end of the death metal spectrum since 2018, specializing in the guttural, slam-inflected brutality that defines the genre's most uncompromising wing. Their small-town Bohemian origins add underdog credibility to their punishing sound.
Formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 2017, Promession deal in the ugliest end of the death metal spectrum, blending brutal death metal and goregrind into a suffocating wall of blast beats and guttural punishment. The Arizona heat seems baked into their abrasive sound, which leans heavily on the sonic traditions of midwest and southwest brutal death without flinching from extremity.
Brutal death metal and grindcore band from Alzira, Spain, formed in 2014, delivering relentless bursts of extremity from the Valencian region. Their concise name matches the short, sharp brutality of their grindcore output.
Brutal death metal band from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, formed in 2013, bringing crushing death metal from the Canary Islands. They prove that extreme metal thrives even in the subtropical Atlantic.
Gunnison, Colorado sits at over 7,700 feet elevation in the Rocky Mountains, and Prophecy of Suffering — formed there in 2018 — channels that geographic isolation into a suffocating strain of brutal death metal. Operating well outside the typical urban metal corridor, the band brings a rawness to their brutality that feels earned in a place where the nearest metropolitan scene is hours away.
The name is a provocation and so is the music — Propitious Vegetation from Unionville, Tennessee formed in 2018 with a foundation in slam and brutal death metal before evolving their approach toward more varied death metal territory. The band's rural Tennessee origins feel at odds with the cosmopolitan brutality of the slam genre they helped represent, and that tension between place and genre is part of what makes them interesting.
Hailing from Minnesota and formed in 2025, Protogen Cumdumpster are a brutal death metal act who lean fully into the genre's extremity — low tunings, relentless blasts, and guttural vocals delivered without compromise or concession to accessibility. They represent the most uncompromising fringe of the American brutal death underground.
Straddling the Bavarian-Hessian border from the Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg corridor, Provocation has been dealing brutal death metal since 2019. Their Main River valley setting provides an unexpected home for some of the region's most punishing sonic output.
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