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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Death metal act from Ufa, capital of Bashkortostan, formed in 2017. Crucifator delivers crushing death metal from the southern Urals.
Melodic death metal and deathcore band from the Vienna and Lower Austria region, newly formed in 2025. They fuse the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian-style melodeath with the crushing breakdowns and modern aggression of deathcore.
Death-thrash metal pioneers from Finland, active since 1990. With over three decades of history, Cruciferae are among the oldest extreme metal acts in Finland.
Death metal band from London, formed in 2018. They deliver crushing death metal from the English capital.
Landis, North Carolina's Crucifice deliver death/thrash metal with a raw, underground sensibility rooted in the South's regional metal tradition. Their music keeps the genre conventions intact while channeling a gritty local character.
Pennsylvania's Crucifier have been a fixture in the underground blackened death metal scene since the early 1990s, operating out of Boothwyn with a relentless devotion to raw extremity and occult darkness. Their long career has helped define the American black/death underground.
Kansas City, Missouri heavy metal act Crucifix draw from the genre's classic Midwestern tradition, building their sound around direct, riff-centered songwriting and a hard-edged delivery that cuts through without frills. Their Heartland roots give the music an honest, unpretentious character.
Dallas death metal act Crucifix are rooted in the fertile Texas underground that has produced extreme metal bands for decades, channeling the state's tradition of heavy, punishing music into a direct and brutal approach.
New Jersey's Crucifixation work the blackened death metal crossover with a raw, underground sensibility, blending black metal's atmospheric hostility with death metal's rhythmic brutality. Their Garden State roots place them within a region with a deep tradition of extreme underground metal.
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