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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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Slamming brutal death metal band from Liege, Belgium, self-described as 'Trve cannibal slam' since 2015. With a prolific output of fourteen releases including Decimated By Barbarity and Primitive Cranial Feast, they deliver relentless gore-drenched brutality with graphic horror themes.
Mankato, Minnesota's Human Bashing have been delivering brutal death metal with unambiguous intent since 2014. Technically punishing and lyrically unsparing, they lean into the genre's most extreme traditions with earnest conviction.
Death metal/goregrind band from El Ejido, Spain, active since 2015. Their gore-soaked extremity channels brutal death metal and goregrind from the agricultural heartland of Almeria.
Technical brutal death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2012. Their technically demanding approach pushes death metal to its most complex and punishing extremes.
Melodic death metal/metalcore band from Neuruppin, Germany, active since 2014. Their dynamic sound bridges Scandinavian-style melodic death metal with modern metalcore from Brandenburg.
Virginia's Human Corpse Abuse arrived in 2022 as a death-grind outfit with a name designed to offend and music calibrated to match — short blasts of putrid brutality with no decorative ambitions whatsoever.
Death metal and grindcore act from Roanne in the Loire department, active since 2018. Their beer-themed name adds levity to a sound that grinds through brutal extremity from central France.
Melodic death metal band from Neumunster, Germany, active since 2011. Their melodic approach channels the Gothenburg tradition with refined guitar harmonies from Schleswig-Holstein.
Human Decay is a death metal band from Noisy-Le-Roi, France, active since 2014 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
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