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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Apocalypse (2023)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues (2015)
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Brutal death metal band from Cocoa Beach, Florida, formed in 2021, delivering the kind of dense, down-tuned carnage that fits squarely in Florida's long tradition of extreme metal extremity.
Sickflesh deal in brutal death metal and goregrind from Nachod, combining inhuman gutturals with grinding blasts of noise. Their approach embraces the most extreme end of the death metal spectrum without compromise.
Death metal band from Lyons, Kansas, formed in 2020, carving out heavy, unrelenting material from a rural Great Plains setting far from the usual metal centers.
Fort Lauderdale death metal stalwarts with roots going back to 2002, part of the fertile South Florida scene that has produced some of the most punishing extremity in American metal history.
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin death/doom outfit formed in 2002, blending the suffocating weight of doom metal with death metal's savagery for a sound that lumbers and crushes in equal measure.
Los Angeles death metal act with a history stretching back to 2002, operating in a city with a dense extreme metal underground and bringing L.A.'s hard-edged darkness to the genre.
Dzerzhinsk's Sickrites pair black and death metal from the chemical-industry city since 2010. Their diseased-ritual name and toxic-industrial origins channel the ceremony of illness into compositions of dual-genre extremity.
Las Vegas progressive death/thrash act formed in 2017, weaving together technical complexity, thrashy aggression, and death metal weight into an ambitious and ever-shifting sound.
Bay Area death metal outfit active since 2004, forged in the same Northern California scene that gave birth to thrash and carrying on its legacy with brutal, technically informed aggression.
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