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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Regensburg-based metal project combining harsh black metal, sharp thrash, stomping death metal, and crushing doom into a single relentless assault. Their 2025 Demo MMXXV, released through Breaking The Chains Records, delivers four tracks reflecting the bravery of going into battle without protective armor.
Melodic death and thrash metal band from Hoogeveen in the northern Netherlands, active since 2019. Their sound bridges the melodic richness of Scandinavian death metal with thrash's relentless speed.
Avant-garde and technical death metal project from France featuring members of Doedsmaghird, Void, and Ysengrin, active since 2023. Their debut EP Nameless I Stand delivers labyrinthine brutal death metal inspired by Sigil, the City of Doors, for fans of Morbid Angel and Gorguts.
Technical brutal death metal band from Modena, Italy, active since 2011 with three albums including Deracinated Celestial Oligarchy on Amputated Vein Records and Fleshforged Columns of Deceit on New Standard Elite. Their 2025 album Asomatous Besmirchment continues their legacy of precision-driven brutality recorded at Art Distillery Studio.
Death metal band from Krakow, Poland, delivering the genre's signature brutality from one of Poland's most culturally rich cities. Their sound reflects the strength of the Polish death metal tradition.
Deathgrind band from São Luís, Maranhão, formed in 2014, featuring Alexandre on guitar, Allef Lopes on vocals, and Lucas Mano on drums. The band released the full-length Global Extinction in July 2019, followed by the seven-track EP Marcas da Tortura in December 2023, self-released with mixing and mastering by Ruan Cruz. Lyrical themes center on historical atrocities, warfare, anti-religion, and torture, drawn from subjects spanning ancient history to modern events.
Death metal and grindcore band from the rural Finnish towns of Pieksamaki and Jappila, active since 2013. Their remote origins in the Finnish heartland inform a raw, unpolished approach to extreme metal.
Brutal death metal and grindcore band from Bydgoszcz, Poland, active since 2002 with over two decades of extreme music. Their long tenure makes them veterans of the Polish brutal death metal underground.
Black and death metal band from Heumont-Rehon in northern France, active since 2016 and channeling dual-genre aggression from near the Belgian border. Their sound fuses the cold atmospheres of black metal with death metal's brutal weight.
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