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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Brutal death metal band from Norfolk, England, active since 2013. They deliver guttural extremity from the East Anglian countryside.
New Jersey slam death metal outfit delivering the bone-crushing breakdowns and guttural extremity the subgenre demands. Dense, low, and relentlessly heavy, their material is built for listeners with a taste for brutality.
California brutal death metal and grindcore act producing grotesque, high-speed extremity with serious underground credentials. Unrelenting in tempo and unsparing in subject matter.
Chattanooga brutal death metal outfit delivering the dense, gore-soaked extremity the genre has long trafficked in. Their sound is straightforward in the best sense — heavy, fast, and uncompromising.
Death metal and grindcore band from the UK, active since 2012. They deliver chaotic, grinding extremity.
Brutal death metal act from Omsk, Siberia, active since 2011. Cranial Osteotomy — a surgical procedure — delivers clinical, punishing brutality from the western Siberian steppe.
Pittsburgh progressive death metal act fusing technical guitar work with genuine compositional ambition. Their material shifts between ferocity and melody, drawing on a tradition of thinking person's extreme metal.
Texas slam death metal project wallowing in the subgenre's most extreme end — bowel-deep gutturals, grinding rhythms, and pure sonic grotesquerie. Strictly underground, strictly brutal.
Lancaster, New Mexico brutal death metal band operating out of one of the Southwest's more unlikely metal outposts. Their material delivers the gore and density the genre calls for with genuine commitment.
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