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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Santa Maria brutal death and grindcore act formed in 2021, delivering chaotic, speed-driven extremity that blurs the line between the two genres with short, savage, and unrelenting compositions.
Death metal act from the small town of Safi, Malta, formed in 2021. Carnivorous Horde brings extreme metal to the tiny Mediterranean island nation.
Brutal death-grindcore band from Liverpool, England, emerging in 2025. They deliver mechanized, grinding extremity from Merseyside.
Centennial, Colorado melodic black/death metal act blending atmospheric sweep with genuine aggression since 2020, drawing on the melodic black metal tradition while keeping the extremity sharp.
Carniçaria is a death metal band from Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil, active and signed to the MS Metal Agency Brasil roster. The band released their debut EP "Carne Moída" in 2018, which is available on major digital platforms.
Omaha brutal death metal outfit active since 2018, representing the Midwest underground with dense, punishing riffwork and guttural extremity delivered with workmanlike intensity.
Brutal death metal act from Ankara, formed in 2024. Carnophage delivers punishing brutality from the Turkish capital.
Death metal and grindcore band from Zamora, Spain, formed in 2019. They channel chaotic extremity from the Castilian plains.
Melodic death-thrash band from Örebro, active since 2012. Carnosus delivers aggressive, hook-driven extreme metal from central Sweden.
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