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Crematorio is one of Argentina's pioneering death metal and grindcore bands, active in Tigre, Buenos Aires since the early 1990s alongside fellow scene originators Exterminio and Scud. Their first full-length, "El Rostro de la Opresión", appeared in 1995 and established their focus on themes of social corruption and gore; the band continued releasing material across multiple active periods and issued a reissue of the album through Careless Records.
Chicago's Crematorium carved out a niche in the Midwest underground by fusing death metal's brutality with thrash metal's speed and drive. Their music reflects the uncompromising approach of the Illinois extreme metal scene.
Los Angeles's Crematorium merged the pit-ready aggression of death metal and hardcore with groove metal's head-down heaviness. Their sound captures the density and intensity of the LA underground's most extreme end.
Crematorium is an active Brazilian thrash/death metal band signed to Satanic Hellbangers Records. The band has contributed to several underground compilations, including The Sound of Satanic Hellbangers Vol. III, and remains a part of Brazil's underground extreme metal circuit.
Gothic industrial death metal band from Mannheim, Germany, active since 2009. They blend the aggression of death metal with gothic atmospheres and industrial elements from the Rhine-Neckar region.
Crematory was a black/death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active in the early 1990s. The independent band explored Satanic themes and released rehearsal material before splitting up.
El Paso's Crematory Digestor churn out filthy death metal and grindcore from the Texas-Mexico borderland underground. Their music is unrelenting and grimy, rooted in the low-budget brutality of regional extreme metal.
Costa Mesa, California's Crematory Stench deliver old-school death metal with an emphasis on putrid atmosphere and lurching, mid-paced heaviness. They draw from the morbid tradition of early Florida and Swedish death metal forebears.
Death-thrash metal band from Kiiminki near Oulu, Finland, active since 2009. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from northern Finland.
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