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Featured Album
A Past Embrace (2022)
Featured Grindcore Album
Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
This is Black Stone Cherry's RSD album. The band really likes it. (2025)
11/13 @ The Rave-Eagles Club, Milwaukee
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Omaha brutal death metal outfit active since 2018, representing the Midwest underground with dense, punishing riffwork and guttural extremity delivered with workmanlike intensity.
Brutal death metal act from Ankara, formed in 2024. Carnophage delivers punishing brutality from the Turkish capital.
Carnopraxis is a brutal death metal band from Oberá, Misiones, formed in 2013 by Oscar Rivarola (vocals), José María Verón (guitar), Diego Duarte (bass), and Martin De Lima (drums). The band released their debut album Tortura Mental in 2013 and followed it with Obsessive Human Depravity on Grinder Cirujano Records, establishing themselves as one of the more notable extreme metal acts from Argentina's Misiones province.
Denver brutal death and grindcore band delivering unrelenting extremity at high altitude, blending the guttural density of brutal death metal with grindcore's short, savage bursts of violence and noise.
Chicago brutal death and slam practitioners delivering pulverizing low-tuned slams and guttural extremity since 2020, firmly planted in the genre's most punishing corner.
Brutal death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2021. They deliver punishing extremity from Greece's second-largest city.
Sacramento brutal death and slam act formed in 2024, pursuing the genre's most visceral extremes through crushing breakdowns and low-register sonic violence.
Madison brutal death metal band with over a decade of activity, known for their pulverizing low-tuned riffs, inhuman guttural vocals, and uncompromising commitment to brutality.
New York's Castigate operate firmly in brutal death metal territory, prioritizing gore-drenched guttural vocals and relentlessly technical riffing over any melodic concession.
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