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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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Stranglion Rot deal in death metal from the Finnish underground, channeling the suffocating decay their composite name describes. Active since 2012, they bring strangulation and rot to the Finnish death metal scene.
San Diego, California brutal death metal band formed in 2019, delivering the hyper-blasting percussion, guttural vocals, and dense, down-tuned riffing central to the brutal death metal style.
Gilbert, Arizona goregrind and brutal death metal outfit formed in 2025, combining the frenzied extremity of goregrind with the crushing density of brutal death metal.
Farmington, Minnesota thrash and groove metal act formed in 2021, blending the rhythmic punch of groove metal with classic thrash aggression to produce heavy, head-banging material.
Boston, Massachusetts technical death metal band formed in 2021, applying rigorous compositional complexity and demanding musicianship to the brutality of death metal in the style associated with the American technical death metal underground.
Strapping Young Lad was formed in Vancouver, Canada in 1994 by Devin Townsend, initially as a one-man studio vehicle for his most extreme and chaotic songwriting. By 1997 the project expanded into a full band featuring drummer Gene Hoglan, guitarist Jed Simon, and bassist Byron Stroud, and the album City established the band's reputation for wall-of-sound industrial metal production married to death and black metal extremity. Subsequent records including Alien (2005) and The New Black (2006) broadened their audience before Townsend disbanded the group in 2007 to pursue a less abrasive creative direction. Strapping Young Lad are widely regarded as one of the most sonically intense bands in extreme metal history.
Quincy, Illinois hardcore and death metal hybrid formed in 2012, blending the confrontational directness of hardcore punk with the brutality and heaviness of death metal.
Streaks deal in death metal from the Catalan village of Bellcaire d'Emporda, channeling extreme aggression from the Emporda countryside. Active since 2016, they bring rural Catalan brutality to the Spanish death metal scene.
Viennese melodic/progressive death metal band whose 2021 debut EP "Awakening" earned praise for its sophisticated dual guitarwork and counterpoint, blending fantasy-inflected power metal elements with melodic death metal and progressive structures. Their technically polished approach brings uncommon compositional depth to the Viennese extreme metal scene.
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