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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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Sterilized is a slam/brutal death metal band from San Diego, California, formed in 2020. They specialize in the genre's most extreme subdivisions, delivering the grinding breakdowns and guttural intensity characteristic of West Coast slam death metal.
Portland, Maine brutal death metal band formed in 2020, pursuing relentless sonic extremity through blast-beat-driven arrangements and guttural low-end savagery.
American slam and brutal death metal project active since 2019, specializing in the subgenre's signature low-register, percussive breakdowns and grotesque sonic extremity.
San Diego, California brutal death metal band formed in 2019, delivering the hyper-blasting percussion, guttural vocals, and dense, down-tuned riffing central to the brutal death metal style.
Gilbert, Arizona goregrind and brutal death metal outfit formed in 2025, combining the frenzied extremity of goregrind with the crushing density of brutal death metal.
Farmington, Minnesota thrash and groove metal act formed in 2021, blending the rhythmic punch of groove metal with classic thrash aggression to produce heavy, head-banging material.
Strength of Supremacy pulverize with brutal death metal from Minsk, dealing in guttural vocals, relentless blast beats, and slam-influenced breakdowns. Their approach to extremity is uncompromising and visceral, rooted in the global brutal death metal underground.
Denver, Colorado brutal death metal band formed in 2023, delivering the hyper-technical riffing, guttural vocals, and percussive brutality at the core of the brutal death metal style.
Brutal death metal band from the southern Bulgarian city of Kardzhali, active since 2021. Their punishing extremity channels death metal's most violent impulses from a region near the Greek and Turkish borders.
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