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Baltimore's Constituents blend grindcore's velocity with death metal's weight and hardcore's confrontational edge, channeling the working-class grit of the Maryland scene into short, furious blasts of aggression.
Death-grind act from Moscow, formed in 2018. Constrained Ferocity delivers blast-driven extremity from the Russian capital.
Death-thrash metal band from Frutigen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, active since 2015. Their sound combines the technical ferocity of death metal with the relentless drive of thrash.
Death metal and grindcore band from Potsdam, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver chaotic extremity from the Brandenburg capital near Berlin.
Constriction are a brutal death and slam metal act working at extreme heaviness, deploying drop-tuned gutturals and bone-crushing breakdowns in service of some of the most punishing sounds the subgenre can offer.
Construct of Corpses operate in the blood-soaked corner of technical death metal, piling intricate riff patterns and complex structures atop an unrelenting brutality that refuses to sacrifice physicality for technicality.
Woodbridge, Virginia's Construct of Lethe draw their name and spirit from the river of forgetfulness, delivering brutish, mid-paced death metal laced with a suffocating atmosphere of ancient obscurity.
Dallas's Construction Sports are a genre-bending experiment in extremity, hurling death metal, grindcore, sludge, and power metal into chaotic collision in one of Texas's most unpredictable and adventurous heavy acts.
Melodic death metal band from West Flanders, Belgium, formed in 2016. They bring the melodic intricacy and harmonic guitar work of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath to the Flemish underground.
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