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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Sinner (Unlucky 13th Anniversary Deluxe Edition / Bonus Commentary / Disc Two) (2015)
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Crust-death act from Modena, Italy, active since 2009. Cancer Spreading fuses d-beat crust punk with death metal heaviness, bridging the punk and metal undergrounds of Emilia-Romagna.
Death metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh brutality to the Czech capital's well-established death metal tradition.
Cancerbero is a death metal band from Concepción, Chile originally formed in 1987, releasing two early demos — Guardian of Hell (1988) and Perpetual Agony (1991) — before disbanding in 1994 and reforming in 2001. The band delivers old-school death metal rooted in the raw, thrash-inflected aggression of the late 1980s, and has released three full-lengths: At the Portal of Evoked Blasphemies (2012), Reconquering the Throne of Death (2019), and Sempiternal Decay (2025).
Death metal act from Poznań, active since 2016. Cancerfaust delivers punishing death metal from the capital of Greater Poland.
Long Island death metal outfit active since around 2015, contributing to the underground's brutalist tradition with releases on various compilation projects.
Death metal band from London, England, active since 2013. They deliver crushing, faith-destroying death metal from the English capital.
Death metal and grindcore band from Edinburgh, Scotland, active since 2009. They deliver filthy, grinding extremity from the Scottish capital.
Death metal act from Vila Nova de Santo André on Portugal's Alentejo coast, active since 2010. Canchroid has spent over a decade delivering crushing death metal from southern Portugal.
Death-groove act from Stavropol in the North Caucasus, formed in 2017. Cancroid channels rhythmically-driven extreme metal from southern Russia.
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