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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Ventura, California death metal band formed in 2016, channeling the West Coast's tradition of technically accomplished and aggressive death metal into a dark, relentlessly heavy sound.
Death metal band from Antwerp, Belgium, formed in 2020 by members of Battalion, Suhrim, Butcher, and Warbeast Remains. With over twenty years of collective experience, their releases 'Sacrificial Death' and 'Suffering Eternal' deliver death metal played by seasoned veterans.
Black-death metal band from Mannheim, Germany, formed in 2015. They fuse the raw aggression of black metal with the heavy brutality of death metal from the Rhine-Neckar region.
Death metal project from Nagyatád, Hungary, formed in 2014. Carnal Desolation trades in grim, unsparing brutality from the rural heartland of Somogy county.
Goregrind band from Ostrava, Czech Republic, founded in 1997. Still active after over 25 years, Carnal Diafragma's prolific output includes the 2024 album The Garden of Earthly Delights, maintaining their signature brand of grotesque extremity.
Buffalo death metal act formed in 2013, bringing the cold, brutal spirit of the upstate New York underground to bear on riff-driven, uncompromising extreme metal.
Death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing death metal from the Greek capital.
Death metal band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2022. They channel old-school death metal darkness from the historic Hessian university town.
Death metal band from Zwolle in Overijssel, active since 2011. Carnal Leftovers traffics in morbid, old-school death metal from the eastern Netherlands.
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