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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Death metal act from Ystad in Skåne, southern Sweden, formed in 2021. Carnalist channels crushing death metal from the far south of Scandinavia.
Hinesville, Georgia grinders fusing the blunt trauma of death metal with the velocity and aggression of grindcore since 2012, built on relentless speed and concise, punishing song structures.
Technical death metal and grindcore act from Kristiansand, southern Norway, active since 2012. Carnassial — named after the shearing teeth of predators — delivers precise, technically demanding extremity.
Death metal act from the Dalmatian city of Šibenik, Croatia, active since 2011. Carnate deals in blunt, unrelenting brutality rooted in early European death metal.
Death metal band from Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium, active since 2018, with a discography including 'Chapel of Abhorrence,' 'Where Death Lies,' and 'Cursed Mortality.' They have established themselves as one of Belgium's premier death metal acts with a steadily growing catalog.
Brutal death-grindcore band from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, formed in 2015. They deliver punishing extremity from Northern Ireland.
Death-grind act from Quartu Sant'Elena near Cagliari, Sardinia, formed in 2019. Carne Guasta — Italian for 'rotten meat' — delivers grinding extremity from the Mediterranean island.
A Massachusetts brutal death and grindcore act born in 2025, trading in the kind of visceral, compressed extremity that sits at the genre's most punishing outer edge.
San Leandro death metal band incorporating melodic death metal sensibilities into a framework of technical aggression, active since 2017 balancing hooks and harmonic depth against straightforward brutality.
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