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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Death metal and grindcore band from Potsdam, Germany, active since 2004. With two decades of grinding extremity, Cyness are veterans of the Brandenburg underground.
Brutal death metal band from Saarbrucken, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver punishing, guttural brutality from the Franco-German border region.
Boston death/grind band operating in the New England extreme metal underground with an unrelenting approach to brutality and noise. Cynicism attacks with short, punishing blasts of combined death metal and grindcore aggression.
Boise, Idaho brutal death metal band delivering pulverizing, technically executed brutality from the Mountain West underground. Cynosure combines crushing riff structures with merciless percussion in the classic American brutal death metal tradition.
Technical death metal band from Wolfsburg, Germany, formed in 2014. They blend technical precision and complex arrangements with death metal aggression.
Death-thrash metal band from Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, formed in 2024. They merge death metal brutality with thrash speed from the historic Reformation city.
Death metal band from Pau in the French Pyrenees, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh death metal to the Beam region.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Belgrade, active since 2016. CyReign blends melodic hooks with modern extreme metal from the Serbian capital.
Blackened death-doom act from Działdowo in northern Masuria, formed in 2021. Cyrograf — Polish for 'pact with the devil' — merges dark subgenres from the rural north.
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