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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Brutal death-grind act from Rome, formed in 2019. Coprophiliac delivers visceral, unrelenting extremity rooted in goregrind traditions.
Minneapolis brutal death metal act Coprophilic bring the genre's most confrontational aesthetics to the Twin Cities with a dedication to pure sonic punishment. Their music is low, slow in the groove, and aggressively anti-melodic in the tradition of American brutal death.
Bulgarian death metal unit from Sofia, active since 2007. Their catalog spans releases like Dirty Exterminating Arrogant Turbo Holocaust and 35 Minutes Of Skull-Smash-Terror-Metal, channeling an aggressive, uncompromising strain of death metal with tongue-in-cheek irreverence.
Death metal band from Athens, Greece, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh, putrid death metal to the Greek underground.
Springfield, Missouri's Copulatory Wounding operate in the slam death metal zone, delivering the genre's signature rhythmic brutality and guttural vocal performances with full commitment to the form. Their sound is suffocatingly heavy, built for the underground pit rather than the mainstream.
Death metal band from Wernigerode in the Harz Mountains, Germany, active since 2002. With over two decades of activity, Cor are veterans of the Saxon-Anhalt death metal underground.
Progressive black-death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2018. They blend progressive complexity with extreme metal darkness from the French capital.
Death metal band from Esbjerg, Denmark, formed in 2019. They channel death metal aggression from Denmark's west coast port city.
Melodic death-power metal act from Kremenchuk in central Ukraine, active since 2010. Coram Deo — Latin for 'before God' — has spent over fifteen years delivering versatile extreme metal from the Dnieper River city.
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