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London-based brutal death metal, goregrind, and grindcore band formed in 2013, revived with encouragement from Amputated's Mark Pearce. Their ultra-guttural catalog from None More Putrid through 2023's career-spanning compilation 1.3.3.1.8 delivers sickening brutality with chaotic energy and dark humor.
Kungur (early)/Perm (later)-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2013, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
Punishing brutal death metal from Athens, formed in 2012. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Brutal slamming death metal band based in Hasselt, Belgium, active since 2019 with vocalist Dakota Rivera. Their releases from "Demo 2019" through "Fist Fucking the Cadaver" deliver unrelenting brutal death metal with slam and deathgrind elements.
Punishing brutal death metal from Reggio Emilia, formed in 2012. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
German brutal death metal and grindcore band from the Merzig-Wadern district, formed in 2025. They bring new extremity to the Saarland metal underground.
London-based slamming brutal death metal band active since 2007. Their split release Vomiting Putrid Blasphemy showcases four tracks of blasphemous slam with guttural vocals and crushing breakdowns.
Punishing brutal death metal from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2024. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Crushing Brutal Death Metal out of Texas.
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