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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Mouthpeace is a progressive death/thrash metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2012. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Hailing from Calumet City, Illinois, Moving Thru Black formed in 2022 and deal in straightforward, no-frills death metal that leans into the gritty industrial edge of the south Chicago suburbs.
Concord, California's Mox Morbus have been building their Bay Area death metal sound since 2012, carrying forward the region's long tradition of technically inclined, riff-forward brutality with a relentless and uncompromising approach.
Mpora is a death and thrash metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2021. They forge aggressive extreme metal from northern Greece.
Originating in Eureka, California, Mr. Bungle are among the most unpredictable acts in metal history, weaving death metal, thrash, avant-garde composition, and experimental noise into a singular and frequently disorienting sonic vision that refuses any single genre label.
Mr. Scarecrow is a Czech band from Ostrava whose 2012 debut "Change the Channel" blends power metal, death metal, and black metal across nine tracks ranging from two-minute blasts to the nine-minute epic "I've Been to the Mountaintop." The quartet of Radim Korbel, Matěj and Jakub Grunt, and Tomáš Červený later pivoted toward death metal.
MSHDR is a blackened death metal band from Yekaterinburg, Russia, formed in 2020. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Cleveland, Ohio's Muciferous are a 2024 goregrind and death metal project that leans hard into biological horror, piling up suffocating riffs and blastbeats in the tradition of the most viscerally repulsive extreme metal the underground has to offer.
Albany, New York's Mucopus are one of the more enduring acts in brutal death metal and grindcore, combining sub-basement tuned brutality with grind's sheer velocity since 1998 in a relentless assault that has defined their city's extreme underground presence.
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