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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Charleston's Emaciated Remains crash goregrind sensibilities into brutal death metal, producing something visceral and relentless. Formed in 2025, the band wastes no time establishing a suffocating wall of noise.
Antwerp-based multi-instrumentalist and composer blending progressive, melodic, and symphonic death metal since 2022. His release "Lamentation of Lost Civilizations" showcases technical guitar and bass work filtered through a diverse musical background that also encompasses hip-hop production and audio engineering.
Madison's Embalm traffic in the kind of murky, cadaver-cold death metal that feels like it was excavated rather than recorded. Since 2018 they've kept the Wisconsin underground well-supplied with putrid, methodical riffs.
Black/death metal and raw black metal band from Split, Croatia active since 2017. They deliver fierce extreme metal from the Adriatic coast.
Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from Dallas.
Dallas's Embalmed blend the bruising swing of death metal with grindcore's frenetic tempo lurches, a combination they've been perfecting since 1991. A genuine pillar of the Texas extreme underground, the band plays like it has nothing left to lose.
Buffalo's Embalmed have spent over three decades threading thrash's rhythmic aggression through death metal's suffocating low end. Formed in 1991, they remain one of upstate New York's most enduring extreme metal acts.
Baltimore's Embalmed channel the city's hard-bitten attitude into brutal death metal that hits with the force of a sledgehammer. Their 1991 origins make them contemporaries of the genre's founding wave, and their approach has only grown more punishing since.
Embalmed was a death/doom metal band from Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, active during the 1990s. The band recorded two demos — Spiritual Coma (1997) and Alive Forever (1999) — before eventually disbanding, leaving behind a small but representative catalogue of the era's Brazilian underground extreme metal scene.
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