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Formed in Santa Ana, California in 2024, Cadaverous Odour takes the splatter and speed of brutal death metal and goregrind and channels it through an intense, blood-soaked sonic attack.
Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Lausanne, Switzerland, formed in 2021. They channel a punishing, blast-beat-driven assault that merges grind intensity with guttural death metal extremity.
Brutal death metal band active since 2012, named after a Defeated Sanity track, dealing in gore-soaked extremity and relentless violence.
Bakersfield, California slam/brutal death metal band formed in 2024, a new entry in the West Coast extreme metal underground.
Brutal death metal band from Wurzburg, Germany, formed in 2018. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from the Franconian wine country.
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band taking their name from the 1980 horror film and operating in the extreme underground.
Chicago brutal death metal band active from around 2015, trading in gore, horror, and sex imagery within the beatdown-adjacent underground.
Brutal death metal act from Ireland, newly formed in 2026. Cannibalised represents the cutting edge of Irish extreme metal brutality.
Brutal death metal act from Moscow, active since 2014. Cannibalistic Infancy delivers punishing brutality from the Russian capital.
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