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Phoenix slam and brutal death metal band serving up the genre's trademark rhythmic heaviness with a desert-baked intensity since 2017, centering on monolithic, pit-ready breakdowns.
Carnicero is a death metal/grindcore band from Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil, catalogued on Encyclopaedia Metallum as a split-up act. The band's lyrical themes encompassed horror, subconscious depravity, death, and atheism, situating them in the tradition of São Paulo's extreme underground scene.
San Diego deathcore veterans known for combining melodic sensibility with crushing breakdowns and death metal ferocity, one of the genre's most consistent and well-regarded acts blending sweeping lead guitar work with relentless heaviness.
Black-death metal band from Kitee in North Karelia, Finland, active since 2013. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the remote Finnish lakeland.
Death metal act from Lisbon, formed in 2024. Carnificina — Latin for 'butchery' — brings fresh brutality to the Portuguese capital's extreme scene.
Carnificina is a death metal band from Ibiraiaras, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, registered on Encyclopaedia Metallum as an active independent act. The band explores themes of gore, splatter, and death, contributing to the extreme metal underground of Rio Grande do Sul state.
Death metal act from Velenje, Slovenia, active since 2016. Carnifliate channels extreme metal from the former coal-mining city in the Šalek Valley.
Technical death metal act from Amsterdam, active since 2013. Carnifloor combines intricate composition with death metal brutality from the Dutch capital.
Blackened death-thrash outfit from Splitska, Croatia, formed in 2016. Carnilo delivers a volatile mix of blast beats, tremolo riffs, and thrash aggression.
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