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Brutal death metal band from Omsk, Russia active since 2011. Weakness delivers punishing brutality from the West Siberian city on the Irtysh River.
Brutal death metal band from Almería, Spain active since 2011. With All My Hate delivers unrelenting brutality and guttural fury from the arid southeastern corner of Spain.
Brutal death metal and grindcore band from Cologne/Leverkusen, Germany active since 2003. World Downfall combines the relentless blast beats of grindcore with brutal death metal's guttural extremity across over two decades of underground activity.
West Odessa, Texas is not a place typically associated with brutal death metal, but Worm Food have been pushing that boundary since forming in 2023. The band brings a punishing, low-end-heavy attack to the West Texas oil country, trafficking in the genre's most extreme sonic violence.
A Texas-based project formed in 2024, Worminfestedcorpse operate at the most punishing end of the brutal death metal and slam spectrum. Brand new to the scene, the band is already committed to the genre's most extreme sonic and lyrical territory, with a name that makes no pretense about the aesthetic.
Progressive and brutal death metal band from Marseille, France active since 2015. Worship the Infinite merges the technical complexity of progressive metal with brutal death metal's unrelenting extremity.
Wretched Anomaly is a Slam/Brutal Death Metal and Deathcore band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2023. The band released their self-titled debut EP in July 2024, a six-track effort, and followed it with a remix single and the 2025 single S.K.V.N.K.
Sacramento's Wurm Flesh traffics in technical brutal death metal, building walls of churning riff work and precision blastbeats into compositions that are as surgically disorienting as they are relentlessly punishing. Formed in 2018, they represent the Californian tradition of brutality pushed through a technical lens.
xArmadylGodswordx is a slam/brutal deathcore band from Ede, Netherlands, formed in 2017 and self-described as "Heavy As Fuck Runeslam." Their band name and track titles reference the MMORPG RuneScape, fusing gaming culture with crushingly heavy slam riffs and brutal deathcore breakdowns in a uniquely irreverent way.
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