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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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This Godless Endeavor (2005)
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Chicago brutal death metal band active from around 2015, trading in gore, horror, and sex imagery within the beatdown-adjacent underground.
Death metal and grindcore band from Turku, Finland, active since 2012. They deliver chaotic, grinding extremity from Finland's oldest city.
Founded in Buffalo in 1988, Cannibal Corpse are death metal's most commercially successful act, defining the genre's extremity with relentless brutality and grotesque lyricism across four decades.
Death metal band from Hamburg, Germany, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh brutality to the Hanseatic city's long-standing metal tradition.
Death metal and grindcore band from Paterna near Valencia, Spain, formed in 2014. They deliver chaotic, abrasive extremity from the Mediterranean coast.
Death-thrash metal band from Finland, formed in 2020. They merge death metal aggression with thrash metal speed.
Brutal death metal act from Ireland, newly formed in 2026. Cannibalised represents the cutting edge of Irish extreme metal brutality.
Brutal death metal act from Moscow, active since 2014. Cannibalistic Infancy delivers punishing brutality from the Russian capital.
Death metal and grindcore band from Bremen, Germany, active since 2009. They deliver chaotic, grinding extremity from the North German port city.
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