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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Severed Savior hails from South San Francisco, California, and has been one of the Bay Area's premier technical brutal death metal acts since forming in 2008. They combine the precision of technical death metal with the sheer pulverizing weight of brutal death, earning a reputation for surgical riffing and relentless intensity.
Devastating Death Metal from Corpus Christii.
Sexual Defecation is a brutal death metal band from Lima, Peru, formed in 2023. The project released its debut demo "Demofecation" in December 2023, a six-track offering of dense, aggressive material with Spanish-language song titles. The band operates in the tradition of Lima's underground extreme metal scene and makes their music available as a free download on Bandcamp.
Tula's Shadows of Contempt deliver brutal death metal from the central Russian arms city since 2017. Their name of darkened scorn and weapons-manufacturing origins channel industrial contempt into compositions of technical extremity.
Shampoon Killer deal in "South Town Brutality" from Prague, with albums like "666: The Battle of Discopylae" and "Mankind Depravity" showcasing their unrelenting approach to brutal death metal. Active since 2007, they've built a reputation in the Czech underground for visceral, punishing extremity.
Shattering Calamity deal in slam, brutal death metal, and goregrind from Madrid, combining the most extreme subgenres into a single, devastating assault. Active since 2016, they bring catastrophic brutality to the Spanish capital.
Heavy Brutal Death Metal from Houston.
Yardley, Pennsylvania's Shenk arrived in 2023 mixing the bone-snapping technicality of melodic death metal with the blunt force of brutal death, carving out a niche in the dense Pennsylvania underground.
Kentucky's Shitkluster push brutal death metal and grindcore through the angular filter of djent, arriving at a dissonant, technically precise kind of brutality that refuses to sit still — formed in 2015 and perpetually refusing to be categorized.
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