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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 Volterra in Pisa province, Tuscany, active since 2013. Carnefix delivers punishing death metal from the ancient Etruscan hilltop town.
Death metal act from Gällivare, a mining town above the Arctic Circle in Swedish Lapland, active since 2012. Carneous delivers death metal from one of Scandinavia's most remote metal outposts.
Death metal act from Kwidzyn in Pomerania, active since 2011. Carnes delivers straightforward death metal from northern Poland.
Death metal band from Osby in Skåne, active since 2003. Carneus has spent over two decades delivering death metal from southern Sweden's countryside.
New York brutal death and slam act formed in 2020, built on the genre's signature down-tuned groove and guttural vocal attack, representing the thriving East Coast slam underground.
Phoenix slam and brutal death metal band serving up the genre's trademark rhythmic heaviness with a desert-baked intensity since 2017, centering on monolithic, pit-ready breakdowns.
Carnicero is a death metal/grindcore band from Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil, catalogued on Encyclopaedia Metallum as a split-up act. The band's lyrical themes encompassed horror, subconscious depravity, death, and atheism, situating them in the tradition of São Paulo's extreme underground scene.
San Diego deathcore veterans known for combining melodic sensibility with crushing breakdowns and death metal ferocity, one of the genre's most consistent and well-regarded acts blending sweeping lead guitar work with relentless heaviness.
Black-death metal band from Kitee in North Karelia, Finland, active since 2013. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the remote Finnish lakeland.
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