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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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St. Louis black/death metal act Rottendom arrived in 2025, bringing a fresh wave of malevolence to Missouri's underground extreme scene. Their sound draws on the darkest currents of both traditions, merging black metal's atmospheric spite with death metal's crushing physicality.
RottenPerish is a death metal/metal punk band from Malmö, Sweden, active since 2009. With releases spanning from their early work through 'Gorefest' and 'Occisor,' the band has maintained a consistent output of extreme metal incorporating doom and black metal elements.
A death metal and hardcore crossover act formed in 2023, Rotting Away channels the brutality of old-school death metal into a framework driven by hardcore's blunt aggression and pacing. Still early in their trajectory, they represent a new wave of US bands fusing the two traditions without compromise.
Rotting Beetroot is a psychedelic doom/death metal and crust band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2017. Their releases including Black Fucking Unicorn From The Future reflect the band's irreverent, genre-blending approach to heavy music that merges crushing doom with psychedelic experimentation and punk energy.
Rotting Bowels is a death metal band from Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2015. The band channels visceral death metal from the forested central German state.
Dallas death/thrash metal. Obscure but vicious late-80s Texas extremity.
Rotting Demise is a death metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2019. The band delivers uncompromising death metal from Germany's most populous state.
Rotting Empire is a death metal band from Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany, established in 2000 and combining 'numerous facets of harder styles of music' with death metal as the foundation. Their releases Buried In The Past and Sui Generis incorporate harmonies, melodies, and groove elements into a diverse death metal framework over two and a half decades of activity.
Rotting Faith is a brutal death metal band from Alençon in Normandy, France, active since 2012. The band channels relentless brutality from the Norman countryside.
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