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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Death metal band from Hertfordshire, England, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing death metal from the English Home Counties.
Confounded is a death metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed around 2013 and active in the northeast Brazilian extreme metal scene. The band plays heavy, groove-inflected death metal and maintains a presence on Bandcamp and Instagram under the handle @confoundedband.
Death-doom act from the Netherlands, formed in 2014. Confrontation delivers heavy, HM-2-driven death-doom in the Swedish tradition.
Blackened death metal act from Reggio Emilia, one of the longer-running Italian extreme metal bands with roots stretching back to 2002. Confusion Gods has spent over two decades crafting dark, uncompromising extreme metal from Emilia-Romagna.
New Orleans death metal act steeped in the city's tradition of dark, heavy music. Their music reflects the humid, foreboding atmosphere of the Louisiana underground.
Brutal death metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2018. They deliver punishing extremity from Northern Ireland.
Brutal death metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. They deliver punishing, technically precise brutality driven by guttural vocals and relentless blast beats.
Death metal band from Viareggio on the Tuscan coast, formed in 2019. Congenital Deformity deals in morbid, pathology-themed death metal from the Versilia riviera.
Oslo-based slam and brutal death metal project launched in 2023, delivering guttural punishment through grinding heaviness and pulverizing breakdowns. Their extreme approach plumbs the lowest depths of the death metal spectrum.
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