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Splattered Coroner is a brutal death metal band from Hamilton, Montana, formed in 2014, representing an unusual outpost of the genre in a state not typically associated with extreme metal, delivering gore-obsessed brutality from the rural Northwest.
Splattered Entrails is a brutal death metal and goregrind band from Levittown, New York, formed in 2006, combining the guttural density of brutal death with the surgical gore fixation of goregrind in the Long Island underground.
Slam/brutal death metal band from Simões Filho, Bahia, formed in 2015, with a multi-vocalist lineup including Iago Gonçalves and Murilo Ribeiro fronting a rhythm section anchored by Márcio Jordanne on drums. Their discography includes the debut full-length The Gore Kitchen of Massacre Food (June 28, 2019) and the follow-up One Shot...One Kill (2023).
Splattered Spine is a brutal death metal band from Bear, Delaware, formed in 2023, representing one of the newer entrants in the Mid-Atlantic brutal death underground with a focus on crushing, bone-pulverizing heaviness.
Splattershy is a slam and brutal death metal band from Newark, Delaware, formed in 2025, one of the most recently active acts in the genre blending the breakdowns of slam with full-bore brutal death extremity.
SplitSick is a brutal death metal band from San Francisco, California, formed in 2019, delivering dense, low-tuned brutality from one of the Bay Area's more extreme metal acts.
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Splitwig is a brutal death metal band from Newark, Delaware, formed in 2012, delivering the dense, guttural onslaught of US brutal death metal from the Mid-Atlantic underground over more than a decade of activity.
Slam/brutal death metal band from the Black Sea port city of Varna, active since 2013. Their explosive blend of slam's crushing breakdowns and brutal death metal's technical ferocity makes them one of the heaviest acts on Bulgaria's eastern coast.
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