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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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This Godless Endeavor (2005)
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Death metal and grindcore veterans from Hamburg, Germany, with roots stretching back to 1992, making them one of the city's longest-running extreme metal acts. Their three-decade career represents an enduring commitment to the most aggressive forms of heavy music from Germany's northern port city.
Black/death metal act from the Hohenlohe region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, delivering savage extremity since 2009. Their ice-themed name reflects the cold, unforgiving character of their fusion of black and death metal.
Gothic/black/death metal act from the Thuringian Forest towns of Tambach-Dietharz and Bad Tabarz, Germany, merging multiple extreme and dark metal styles since 2022. Their name, meaning "ice rain," evokes the harsh, unforgiving weather of their central German mountain home.
Black/death metal and grindcore act from Munster, Germany, delivering venomous, three-genre extremity since 2015. Their name, meaning "pus" in German, captures the toxic, infectious quality of their sonic assault.
Death metal and melodic death metal band from Compiegne, France active since 2015. They deliver aggressive yet melodically rich death metal from the Picardy region.
Dayton, Ohio's Ejaculating Rektal Squid Pussy commits fully to the brutality of goregrind and brutal death metal, a project formed in 2022 with no pretense toward subtlety. Cavernous gurgles, blast beats, and maximum grotesquerie.
Burlington, Vermont's Ejaculatör has been delivering a nasty amalgam of black, thrash, and death metal since 2020, the umlaut signaling a dedication to filthy excess across all three traditions. Raw, fast, and gloriously crude.
Death/thrash metal band from France, active since 2014. They deliver fierce, riff-driven extreme metal from the French underground.
Death metal and progressive metal band from Tours, France active since 2015. They blend technical complexity with death metal brutality from the Loire Valley.
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