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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Death metal band from Ypres, Belgium, active since 2014, spanning black metal, deathcore, and deathgrind. Their 2020 album 'Prophecies' and earlier 'Retaliation Of The Suppressed' showcase a versatile approach to extreme metal from the historic Flanders Fields region.
Chicopee, Massachusetts brutal death metal band delivering blasphemous, gore-drenched extremity from the New England underground. Dense, guttural, and uncompromisingly brutal.
Yakima, Washington brutal death metal act bringing grinding heaviness and guttural ferocity from the Pacific Northwest interior. Their music is dense, morbid, and relentlessly heavy.
Houston brutal death metal trio fusing hardcore aggression with old-school death metal.
Madison, Wisconsin death metal outfit delivering punishing riffs and guttural extremity in the tradition of the Midwest underground. Their raw, uncompromising approach keeps the genre's most brutal instincts front and center.
Florida-bred death metal and hardcore crossover act merging the punishing heaviness of extreme metal with the aggression and directness of hardcore punk. The result is a collision of brutality that hits hard from both sides.
Blackened brutal death metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2023. They blend black metal darkness with brutal death metal ferocity from Yorkshire.
New York death metal band carving out a grimy corner of the state's long-running extreme music tradition. Their sound leans into the filth and decay that the genre does best.
Providence, Rhode Island death metal act trading in the kind of fetid, rot-soaked heaviness the name implies. They carry on the New England underground's taste for grime-coated brutality.
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