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Featured Album
Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Interior Wilderness (Drumcorps Remix) (2023)
06/19 @ Brooklyn Bowl - Nashville, Nashville
Featured Groove Metal Album
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Melodic death metal band from Nynäshamn south of Stockholm, active since 2013. Carnage Cafe serves up melodeath in the classic Swedish tradition.
Melodic death metal band from Oettingen in Bayern, Germany, formed in 2015. They blend the technical precision of death metal with melodic guitar harmonies and dynamic songwriting.
Carnage Hell is an independent death metal band from Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The band explores themes of war, death, and destruction, and distributes their music through Bandcamp.
Norman, Oklahoma death metal and deathcore band delivering a punishing combination of old-school death metal brutality and modern breakdowns, honed through over a decade in the Oklahoma underground.
Death-thrash metal band from Lyon, France, active since 2011. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from France's second city.
Brutal death metal band from Enontekio in Finnish Lapland, active since 2010. They deliver extreme brutality from one of the most remote locations in the Finnish metal scene.
Death metal and grindcore band from Slagelse, Denmark, active since 2012. They deliver a fierce blend of death metal brutality and grindcore velocity.
Carnal Atrocity is a death metal/grindcore duo from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2020 and comprising Karine Campanille (vocals, guitar, bass, synths) and Emiliano Borges (drums). The band released their debut album "Degenerescência" in June 2020, recorded at Estúdio Mitra and mixed at Crossroads Studio in São José dos Campos, São Paulo.
Milwaukee brutal death metal outfit specializing in the genre's most extreme end — gore-drenched lyrics, guttural vocals, and dense, down-tuned riffing executed with surgical precision.
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