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Death metal and grindcore band from Marseille, France, active since 2001. With over two decades of grinding extremity, they deliver abrasive chaos from the Mediterranean port.
Blackened death metal act from Odesa, formed in 2023. Cunt Gushes Tungsten delivers provocatively raw extreme metal from the Black Sea port city.
Death metal and grindcore band from Taunton, England, formed in 2014. They deliver provocative, abrasive extremity from Somerset.
Los Angeles's Cuntamination operate in the most punishing end of brutal death metal, favoring maximum heaviness and genre-specific extremity over nuance or experimentation. The Southern California act is part of a region that has quietly sustained a fertile underground brutal death scene operating well below the mainstream radar.
Black-death-grind act from Saratov, active since 2014. Cuntgoat delivers provocatively raw extremity from the Volga city.
Crust-death-grindcore band from Liverpool, England, active since 2000. With over two decades of activity, Cuntroller deliver chaotic, raw extremity from Merseyside.
Bulgarian death/black metal band from Sofia, founded in 2005 by Mihail Sergeev, Angel Sergeev, and Plamen Dimitrov. Their two albums, Mistaken by Design (2007) and Pandaemonium (2015), traverse a wide spectrum from melodic death and black metal to progressive and power metal influences.
Indianapolis's Curb work the volatile intersection of black metal's atmospheric menace and death metal's structural brutality, a combination that has always felt at home in the Midwest's underground extreme scene. The Indiana act operates independently, adding to a regional lineage that includes Coffinworm and Demiricous.
Chicago's Curdled push death metal toward its most putrid and decomposing extremes, delivering the kind of ugly, uncompromising underground death that the city's metal scene has sustained for decades beneath the gaze of more prominent acts. The band operates in the tradition of Chicago's deep-rooted death underground.
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