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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)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Casa Grande, Arizona act bridging death metal and grindcore with disgust-fueled riffing and a splatter-obsessed aesthetic that nods to the nastier end of goregrind.
Death metal band from Muhos near Oulu, Finland, formed in 2014. They channel death metal aggression from the northern Finnish plains.
Death metal band from London, formed in 2014. They deliver filthy, crushing death metal from the English capital.
Melodic death-thrash band from Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary, near the Austrian border, active since 2006. Casketgarden fuses sweeping melodic hooks with death metal aggression and thrash precision.
Death-thrash metal band from Santander in Cantabria, Spain, formed in 2022. They merge death metal aggression with thrash speed from the northern Spanish coast.
Death-thrash act from the Treviso and Venice area, active since 2008. Cassandra's Cyndrom has spent over fifteen years delivering aggressive extreme metal from the Veneto region.
Death metal and grindcore band from Barcelona, Spain, emerging in 2025. They deliver chaotic grinding extremity from the Catalan scene.
Sacramento act blending technical death metal with progressive structures and thrash-driven aggression, channeling complex rhythmic shifts into a sound that feels both cerebral and visceral.
Cast Adrift from Dallas, NC merge melodic death metal's hook-forward songwriting with metalcore's rhythmic punch, leaning hard into dual-guitar melody over breakdowns.
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