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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Atlanta brutal death and slam act Crime Slug specialize in gutted, ultra-heavy carnage drawn from the most punishing corners of extreme metal. Their music is dense, grotesque, and deeply rooted in the Southern US underground.
Criminal Element merge death metal's morbid brutality with grindcore's political ferocity from within the Washington D.C. underground. Their sound reflects the confrontational energy of the capital city's extreme music scene.
Death metal band from Lyon, France, active since 2013. They deliver crushing death metal from France's second city.
Death-thrash act from Dublin, formed in 2023. Criminal Jammage brings raw, aggressive energy to the Irish capital's extreme metal community.
Humble, Texas's Criminally Insane bring death/thrash aggression from the Houston suburbs with a sound built on blunt force riffing and furious tempo shifts. They are a product of the deep Texas underground that values intensity above all.
Syracuse, New York's Criminally Insane combine the gore and brutality of death metal with grindcore's explosive intensity in the tradition of upstate New York's extreme underground. Their music is fast, ugly, and uncompromising.
Melodic death metal act from Almada, across the Tagus from Lisbon, formed in 2019. Crimson Bridge merges melodic hooks with death metal aggression.
Death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2022. They channel crushing death metal from the Danish capital.
Melodic death metal act from Skänninge in Östergötland, formed in 2018. Crimson Carnage delivers the classic Swedish melodeath sound from central Sweden.
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