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Self-Mutilation is a brutal death and slam metal band from Mendoza, Argentina, that released their debut album "Horrendous Anomalies" in November 2019 through Grinder Cirujano Records, with international distribution handled by Sevared Records in the USA and Rapture Records in Brazil. The seven-track record placed the band within the tight-knit South American slamming brutal death scene.
Brutal death metal and grindcore band from São José, Santa Catarina, formed in 2003, with a rotating lineup that has included Ricardo on vocals and drums, Hudson on guitar and vocals, and Murilo on drums across multiple tenures. The band released Grindcore Attack in 2017, Tempos Sombrios in 2019, and Dissonância Cognitiva Coletiva in 2024 through Terceiro Mundo Chaos Discos and Rotten Foetus Records.
Septic Congestion deal in slam and brutal death metal from Lyngby near Copenhagen, delivering guttural extremity from the Danish capital's northern suburbs. Active since 2016, they bring medical-horror brutality to the Scandinavian slam scene.
Septicemia is a brutal death metal band from Mendoza, Argentina, whose gore-themed lyrical approach places them squarely in the most extreme end of the local underground scene. The band released a demo in 2011 and contributed the track "Manifiesto de muerte" to the Sick Musik to Your Guts Vol. 5 compilation in December 2021.
Turin's Septycal Gorge have been delivering brutal death metal since 2014. Their technically accomplished approach to extremity has made them one of the Piedmontese capital's most punishing musical exports.
Hayward, California's Seraphim Defloration deal in the guttural end of brutal death metal, built on punishing rhythms, gurgural vocals, and the kind of relentless sonic violence that has defined the Bay Area's underground extreme metal scene since the band's 2015 formation.
Service Geriatrie burst onto the French brutal death metal scene in 2023 with a darkly humorous name belying genuinely punishing sonic output. Their blasting, guttural approach sits firmly within the gore-obsessed end of the death metal spectrum.
Sacramento's Sever Dismember have been delivering some of California's most punishing brutal death metal since 2012, with a name that telegraphs exactly what they're offering: relentless, surgical violence rendered in blasting percussion and gore-soaked riff torrents. They occupy the most extreme end of the Sacramento underground, where brutality is a competitive sport.
Severe Torture is a Dutch brutal death metal band formed in 1997 in the Netherlands, rooted in the uncompromising heaviness of Cannibal Corpse and Dying Fetus. The band broke through with their debut Feasting on Blood (2001) on Earache Records, hailed as a landmark entry in the emerging brutal death metal subgenre, and followed it with Fall of the Despised (2005), Sworn Vengeance (2007), and Slaughtered (2010) on Season of Mist. After a lengthy quiet period, the band returned in 2022 with the EP Fisting the Sockets.
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