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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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Belgorod's Sickcunt merge brutal death, standard death, and grindcore from the Black Earth region since 2020. Their maximally provocative name channels shock-value extremity into compositions of southern Russian aggression.
Florence's Sickening have been dealing in brutal death metal since 2008. Their Renaissance city origins create a stark contrast with their music's unrelenting extremity, delivered with technical precision.
Brutal death metal band from Cocoa Beach, Florida, formed in 2021, delivering the kind of dense, down-tuned carnage that fits squarely in Florida's long tradition of extreme metal extremity.
Sickflesh deal in brutal death metal and goregrind from Nachod, combining inhuman gutturals with grinding blasts of noise. Their approach embraces the most extreme end of the death metal spectrum without compromise.
North Carolina's Signs of Decay lean into the most punishing end of the death metal spectrum, blending brutal death and grindcore in short, merciless bursts of extremity since their 2023 formation.
Atlanta's Signs of Dying pursue a single-minded approach to brutal death metal, drawing on the city's dense underground scene to deliver relentlessly dense and technically precise violence since 2021.
Heavy Brutal Death Metal / Deathcore from Brownsville.
Illinois brutal death metal act Simulacrum AD launched in 2024, bringing the most punishing branch of death metal's extremity to bear on their compositions. The name — invoking simulacra and the post-truth collapse of authentic reality — pairs conceptual weight with genre-appropriate sonic violence.
Skag is a Dayton, Ohio brutal death metal and grindcore band formed in 2022, delivering punishing low-end heaviness punctuated by grind-tempo blasting and guttural vocal extremity. They represent the working-class Midwest underground tradition of no-frills, no-mercy extreme metal.
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