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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Borderland (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Unholy Savior (2015)
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Death metal band from Karlstad in Värmland, active since 2015. Cut Up delivers sharp, Swedish-style death metal with surgical precision.
Death-thrash metal band from Vigo, Spain, active since 2013. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from the Galician Atlantic coast.
Minnesota brutal death and slam metal band weaponizing extremity with maximum sonic grotesquerie and gut-punch riffing. Cute Puppy Decapitation piles brutal death metal's most visceral elements onto a foundation of slamming, bowel-rattling heaviness.
Brutal death metal and deathcore act from Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, formed in 2021. They deliver slamming brutality and crushing breakdowns from the famous Bohemian spa town.
Death-doom-sludge act from Reykjavík, active since 2017. CXVIII delivers crushing, slow-burning heaviness that draws on Iceland's tradition of atmospheric extreme metal.
Progressive death metal and deathcore band from the Essonne south of Paris, France, formed in 2017. They blend progressive complexity with extreme metal aggression.
Yorktown, Virginia technical death and grindcore band named for a Lovecraftian entity, merging clinical precision with brutal extremity. Cyaegha delivers technically demanding death metal with the frenzied velocity of grind.
Reno death metal, deathcore, and metalcore band fusing modern extreme metal's heaviest elements into a punishing hybrid. Cyanate layers crushing breakdowns and guttural death metal aggression over a metalcore song framework.
San Jose, California blackened death metal band forging a sound out of the collision between black metal's cold atmosphere and death metal's brutal low end. Cyanic channels Bay Area underground extremity with menace and weight.
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