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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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Slam/brutal death metal band from Texel, a Wadden Sea island in the Netherlands, formed in 2025. Their tongue-in-cheek name accompanies slamming brutality from one of the most unlikely metal origins imaginable.
Brutal death metal and grindcore band from Salvador, Bahia, formed in 2009 under the name Gutrender before adopting their current name. The lineup of Caio Rohr on vocals, Diego Fleischer on guitar, Derick Alcântara on bass, and Márcio Jordanne on drums released the mini-CD Execrate in 2009 and the full-length Misbegotten in 2014, both centering on gore-themed lyrics. Their later material appeared on Guttural Brutality Productions, including the album Intense Sensations in Self Mutilation.
Slam/brutal death metal band from Piatra Neamț, Romania, formed in 2019. Their deliberately crude name accompanies slamming brutality from the Moldavian city.
Brutal death metal/grindcore band from Russia, formed in 2021. Their horror-themed name accompanies extreme brutality.
Rotten Minds is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Móstoles near Madrid, Spain, formed in 2015. The band delivers extreme brutality from Madrid's southern metropolitan area.
Rotten Ocean is a brutal death metal band from Odense on the island of Funen in Denmark, formed in 2019. The band delivers punishing brutality from the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen.
Rotten Poodle is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Taulé in Brittany, France, active since 2013. The band delivers extreme music from the Finistère coast of northwestern France.
Florida's Lake County spawned Rotten Resurrection in 2024, a brutal death metal outfit arriving fully committed to the state's legendary tradition of punishing, gore-soaked extremity. Still in their early days, the band channels that Floridian death metal legacy through a particularly savage and relentless lens.
Rotting Faith is a brutal death metal band from Alençon in Normandy, France, active since 2012. The band channels relentless brutality from the Norman countryside.
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