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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 goregrind turned black metal and grindcore band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2008, whose gloriously grotesque name matches their sonic evolution. Nearly two decades of extreme mutation from the Russian capital.
American brutal death metal and goregrind project formed in 2020, doubling down on the most viscerally extreme end of the death metal spectrum with hyper-blasted tempos, guttural vocal extremity, and gore-fixated imagery drawn from the goregrind tradition.
Slam and brutal death metal band from Yekaterinburg, Russia, formed in 2025, delivering graphic surgical extremity from the Ural capital. They represent the newest wave of Russian slam death metal.
Brutal death metal and goregrind band from Perm, Russia, formed in 2016, dealing in rotting corpse-themed extremity from the Ural region. They bring nearly a decade of putrid violence.
Brutal death metal band from Zaandam, Netherlands, formed in 2023, dealing in rotting, festering brutal death metal. They bring fresh decay to the North Holland extreme metal scene.
Putrid Impetus is a brutal death metal band from São Paulo with lyrical themes centered on pathology, disease, and gore. Their debut album Fatal Necrotic Ecstasy was released on February 15, 2025 through Rotten Foetus Records as an eight-track, eight-page-booklet CD.
Dayton, Ohio's Putrid Stu is a goregrind and brutal death metal project that leans hard into the absurdist, splatter-film side of the genre — a one-person or small-band affair that has been churning out crude, blasting extremity since 2018. The Dayton underground has produced some fierce acts, and Putrid Stu fits squarely in that tradition of low-budget, high-intensity noise.
Ripping Slam / Brutal Death Metal from Livingston.
Slamming brutal death metal band from Liège, Belgium, active since 2009 with a prolific catalog of 13 releases including Bite The Curb and The Deep End Of Horror. They are a stalwart of the Belgian brutal death metal underground, delivering unrelenting slam and guttural heaviness.
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