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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Dial Tone (2022)
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Balashikha-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2024, 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.
German brutal death metal band from Bremen, formed in 2021. They deliver unflinching brutal death metal from the Hanseatic city.
Spanish death metal band from Alzira in Valencia, formed in 2011. They deliver brutal death metal from the Valencian interior.
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.
German death metal band from Oranienburg near Berlin, formed in 2015. They play no-frills, kraut-flavored death metal from the Brandenburg outskirts.
Uncompromising death metal from Mosonmagyaróvár, active since 2017. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Brutal Masturbation is a death metal and grindcore band from the Patagonian city of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina, active since 2017. The band released the Aborto EP, delivering short blasts of death-grind in the tradition of South America's extreme underground.
Death/thrash metal band from Dupnica, Bulgaria, active since 2016. They combine death metal's brutality with thrash metal's speed in a punishing hybrid.
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