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Rotten Minds is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Móstoles near Madrid, Spain, formed in 2015. The band delivers extreme brutality from Madrid's southern metropolitan area.
Rotten Necrosis is a death metal and goregrind band from Brunsbüttel at the mouth of the Kiel Canal in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, formed in 2018. The band delivers extreme music from one of northern Germany's most remote coastal towns.
Rotten Ocean is a brutal death metal band from Odense on the island of Funen in Denmark, formed in 2019. The band delivers punishing brutality from the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen.
Rotten Offerings is a death metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, formed in 2022. The band contributes to the Franconian capital's growing extreme metal scene.
Rotten Organs is a death metal and goregrind band from A Coruña in Galicia, northwestern Spain, formed in 2024. The band channels visceral extremity from the Atlantic port city in Spain's Celtic-influenced corner.
Rotten Poodle is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Taulé in Brittany, France, active since 2013. The band delivers extreme music from the Finistère coast of northwestern France.
Florida's Lake County spawned Rotten Resurrection in 2024, a brutal death metal outfit arriving fully committed to the state's legendary tradition of punishing, gore-soaked extremity. Still in their early days, the band channels that Floridian death metal legacy through a particularly savage and relentless lens.
Rotten Scalp is a death metal act from Dobryanka, Russia, active since 2021. Their releases include a demo and the EP 'The Path Of Disease,' channeling raw and unpolished death metal aggression from the Perm region.
Rotten Sculpture is a death metal band from Kiel, the capital of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, formed in 2015. The band delivers crushing death metal from the Baltic Sea port city.
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