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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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A death metal band from San Diego, California, Cadavered is a recent entry into the city's underground scene, offering straight-forward, punishing death metal in the classic mold.
Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Brescia, Italy, active since 2004. Cadaveric Crematorium delivers relentless blasting and guttural punishment from Lombardy.
Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cadaveric Depravity deals in the punishing low-end assault of brutal death metal, built around guttural vocals, blast beats, and technical riffwork.
Death metal and grindcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2017. They deliver a punishing blend of filthy death metal and grinding blasts from the Finnish capital.
Death metal band from England, formed in 2024. They channel perverse, extreme death metal darkness.
A death metal and grindcore band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cadaveric Spasm has been grinding since 2009, channeling the collision of DM brutality and grind's spastic, short-form aggression.
Death metal and grindcore band from Lahti, Finland. They deliver chaotic, grinding extremity from the Finnish lake district.
Death metal and goregrind band from Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, formed in 2024. They bring the filth and extremity of goregrind alongside crushing death metal from one of Bulgaria's oldest cities.
Long-running Austrian extreme metal project formed in Graz in 1993, originally rooted in goregrind before shifting toward a death metal and neofolk hybrid. Their extensive catalog includes albums like 'Never Arrive, Never Return' and 'Burn Brightly Alone,' exploring dark, contemplative themes with experimental tendencies.
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