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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Trollhattan's Vomitrot merges death metal's guttural heaviness with doom metal's ponderous weight, creating compositions that alternate between grinding devastation and slow, crushing passages. Their dual-genre approach creates a dynamic range from frenetic to funereal.
Vomiturgy is a death metal/grindcore band from Béziers, France, active since 1996. With nearly three decades of activity, they are one of the more enduring extreme metal acts in the Languedoc underground.
Elk-based Vomitvsanctvs, their name rendered in mock-Latin black metal orthography, delivers a punishing death-thrash assault rooted in the Polish underground. Their compositions channel raw aggression and blasphemous intensity through tight, riff-driven songwriting.
Von Pey is a melodic death metal band from Cologne, Germany, active since 2004. They play melodic death metal with dual-guitar harmonies and dynamic vocal contrasts.
Ruthless Slam / Brutal Death Metal from San Antonio.
Vorkreist is a black/death metal band from Paris, France, active since 2002. With over two decades of unrelenting extreme metal, they are an established force in the Parisian underground.
Formed in 2020 in Guilderland, New York, Vortex play heavy metal grounded in the hard-driving traditions of thrash with a no-frills, riff-first approach. The band leans into the kinetic energy of classic thrash while keeping the songwriting anchored in heavy metal's melodic instincts. Short on pretension and long on velocity, they represent the continuing vitality of the upstate New York metal underground.
Bratislava's Vortex Unit merges black and death metal into a savage hybrid that draws from both genres' most extreme tendencies. Their dual-genre attack creates compositions that alternate between atmospheric tremolo passages and crushing, guttural devastation.
Vortexed arrived from Clarksville, Tennessee in 2024 with a debut rooted in brutal death metal's most uncompromising traditions. As one of the younger entries in the brutal death scene, they came out swinging with dense low-end punishment and clinical rhythmic violence. The band wastes no time on subtlety — every track is a concentrated exercise in technical brutality.
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