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To Take Your Place (2022)
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Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum (2022)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Don't You (Forget About Me) (feat. Tyler Connolly of Theory Of A Deadman) (2026)
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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.
New Hampshire slam and brutal death metal band formed in 2025, embracing the genre's signature down-tuned guitars, guttural vocals, and rhythmically punishing breakdowns.
Brutal death metal band from Garrett, Indiana, formed in 2013, delivering relentless, technically driven extremity within the brutal death metal tradition.
Viennese brutal death metal solo project of Daniel Gebhart, handling guitars, bass, vocals, and programmed drums, with their debut "Eradication Fascination" slated for 2026. The project delivers unrelenting brutality through one musician's singular, uncompromising vision of extreme metal.
Brutal death metal band from Ecorse, Michigan, formed in 2022, delivering pulverizing extremity in the vein of the Midwest's tradition of uncompromising underground brutality.
Subjugated deliver technical and brutal death metal from Bilbao, building mathematically precise compositions of extreme aggression. Their Basque Country base connects them to one of Spain's most intense musical cultures.
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