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German brutal death metal band from Bremen, formed in 2021. They deliver unflinching brutal death metal from the Hanseatic city.
Brutal death metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland, active since 2012. They deliver relentless brutality from the second-largest city in the Zurich canton.
Punishing brutal death metal from Bishop Burton, formed in 1997. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Bergamo-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2010, 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.
Brutal Noise is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Córdoba, Argentina, tracing their roots to 1993 when five musicians began playing thrash and hardcore under the name Año Negro before renaming themselves Brutal Noise in 1995. Over a career spanning more than two decades, they have released albums including Impending Rot (2000), Ripped in Half (2007), and The Worst Is Yet to Come (2016), cementing their place in Argentina's extreme metal underground.
Punishing brutal death metal from Torres Novas, formed in 2008. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Voronezh-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2021, 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.
Breda-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2015, 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.
Buccal Defecation is a brutal death metal band from Quilmes in the Buenos Aires province of Argentina, active in the local extreme underground since at least 2002. The band released a Demo in 2002, the Vaginal Rotten EP in 2011, and the full-length Testament of Brutality in 2014 through Grinder Cirujano Records, and also appeared on the split 3 Ways of Perversity alongside fellow Argentine acts Annihilate and Butcher.
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