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Simi Valley death/thrash band Circumsodomy deliver blunt-force riffs and caustic vocals in the tradition of early Bay Area savagery. Their no-frills approach keeps the brutality honest and unrelenting.
Melodic death-doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. They weave melancholic melodies through crushing death-doom foundations.
Pennsylvania brutal death metal unit Cirrhosis grind through dense, low-tuned punishment with relentless double-bass precision and guttural vocal devastation. They keep the approach surgical and the results crushing.
Plant City, Florida's Cirrhosis channel the corrosive energy of classic death/thrash into punishing modern form, bridging the raw aggression of the genre's Florida roots with thrash's speed and spite.
Cirrhosis is a death metal band from Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, originally formed in 1988 by members who also played in Sarcófago; after dissolving in 1993 they reformed in 2001 and signed with the legendary Cogumelo Records. The band released the full-lengths "Alcoholic Death Noise" (2002) and "Drinks From Hell" (2009), built around a booze-and-brutality lyrical identity rooted in the classic Brazilian extreme metal tradition.
Death-thrash act from Smolensk, western Russia, active since 2014. Cist delivers aggressive extreme metal from the historic border city.
Secaucus death/progressive metal act Citadel fuse technical death metal's precision with progressive architecture, building compositions that shift between calculated brutality and melodic expansiveness. Their sound rewards patience as much as headbanging.
German black-death metal act, one of the country's earliest extreme metal projects with roots dating to 1984. Their pioneering presence helped shape the German extreme metal landscape.
Santa Cruz death/grind act Citizen bring West Coast venom to their short, violent bursts of blastbeat-driven brutality. Their sound is compact, precise, and merciless.
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