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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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Chesterton, Indiana act blending death metal brutality with grindcore velocity and industrial-tinged aggression. Short, vicious, and unapologetically heavy.
Iowa-based act from Griswold fusing death metal intensity with groove metal's mid-paced stomp and heaviness. Their songs hit hard with a rhythmically focused, punishing approach.
Gulfport, Mississippi band combining death metal heaviness with grindcore's relentless, short-burst aggression. They bring Gulf Coast brutality in compact, intense doses.
Death metal band from Antrim, Northern Ireland, active since 2012. They deliver crushing death metal from Northern Ireland.
Spokane death metal act delivering old-school brutality with a raw, unpolished edge from the Pacific Northwest. Their music is rooted in classic American death metal traditions.
North Carolina death metal and grindcore act fusing grinding speed with brutal heaviness from the Southeastern underground. Their approach is violent, blunt, and unrelenting.
Cleveland death-thrash band fusing the brutality of death metal with the speed and aggression of classic thrash. Their Ohio roots lend a blue-collar, no-frills heaviness to their music.
Blackened death metal act from Miass in the Chelyabinsk region, active since 2011. Corpse Flesh channels dark extreme metal from the Ural mountains.
Brutal death metal band from Brighton, England, formed in 2024. They deliver punishing extremity from the English south coast.
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