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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Death-grind act from Toruń in central Poland, active since 2013. Croque-Mort — French for 'undertaker' — delivers morbid, blast-driven extremity from the medieval Vistula city.
Black-death metal band from Kaiserslautern, Germany, formed in 2020. They channel sacrilegious darkness through a fusion of black and death metal from the Palatinate.
Hungarian death metal project formed in 2014. Cross Eyed delivers unrelenting death metal brutality.
Mastic, New York death metal outfit Cross Fade bring Long Island's long tradition of underground death metal brutality to bear with punishing, hook-driven riff work.
Tampa brutal death metal act Cross Gnawer hail from one of the most storied cities in extreme metal history, delivering grotesque, gore-laden riff assaults in the proud tradition of Florida's death metal scene.
Death-groove act from Mińsk Mazowiecki near Warsaw, formed in 2017. Cross Hatred merges death metal heaviness with rhythmic groove from the Masovian outskirts.
Cleveland's Cross the Rubicon bridges the aggression of death metal with the structured heaviness of metalcore, carving out a brutal sound in the Ohio underground. Their music hits hard with tight riffing and punishing breakdowns.
Death-grind act from Sweden, formed in 2021. Crossbow Suicide delivers blast-driven extremity with dark humor.
Richmond, Virginia's Crossing the Event Horizon combines the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian-influenced death metal with uncompromising brutality. Their technical approach draws equally from melodeath's harmonic depth and straight death metal's ferocity.
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