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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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New Hampshire slam and brutal death metal band formed in 2025, embracing the genre's signature down-tuned guitars, guttural vocals, and rhythmically punishing breakdowns.
Brutal death metal band from Garrett, Indiana, formed in 2013, delivering relentless, technically driven extremity within the brutal death metal tradition.
Viennese brutal death metal solo project of Daniel Gebhart, handling guitars, bass, vocals, and programmed drums, with their debut "Eradication Fascination" slated for 2026. The project delivers unrelenting brutality through one musician's singular, uncompromising vision of extreme metal.
Brutal death metal band from Ecorse, Michigan, formed in 2022, delivering pulverizing extremity in the vein of the Midwest's tradition of uncompromising underground brutality.
Subjugated deliver technical and brutal death metal from Bilbao, building mathematically precise compositions of extreme aggression. Their Basque Country base connects them to one of Spain's most intense musical cultures.
San Diego brutal death metal band formed in 2023, adding to Southern California's thriving extreme metal underground with punishing low-end heaviness and unrelenting aggression.
Succor is a brutal death metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2025, unleashing dense, punishing heaviness in the tradition of the Pacific Northwest's vibrant underground death metal scene.
Succubus is an Atlanta, Georgia band formed in 2017 that moves between ambient black metal and brutal death metal/deathcore, creating a jarring contrast between oppressive atmosphere and outright sonic violence.
Indiana brutal death metal and slam act formed in 2017, merging the pummeling groove of slam death metal with hardcore aggression for a particularly visceral form of extreme music.
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