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Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from Dallas.
Dallas's Embalmed blend the bruising swing of death metal with grindcore's frenetic tempo lurches, a combination they've been perfecting since 1991. A genuine pillar of the Texas extreme underground, the band plays like it has nothing left to lose.
Buffalo's Embalmed have spent over three decades threading thrash's rhythmic aggression through death metal's suffocating low end. Formed in 1991, they remain one of upstate New York's most enduring extreme metal acts.
Baltimore's Embalmed channel the city's hard-bitten attitude into brutal death metal that hits with the force of a sledgehammer. Their 1991 origins make them contemporaries of the genre's founding wave, and their approach has only grown more punishing since.
Embalmed was a death/doom metal band from Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, active during the 1990s. The band recorded two demos — Spiritual Coma (1997) and Alive Forever (1999) — before eventually disbanding, leaving behind a small but representative catalogue of the era's Brazilian underground extreme metal scene.
Cleveland's Embalmer carry on with the straightforward death metal tradition that has always suited Ohio's no-frills underground. Since 2016, they've delivered unadorned, morgue-scented brutality without pretense.
Swiss goregrind and death metal institution active since 2003, delivering nauseating blasts of extreme noise with theatrical, horror-tinged imagery. Their long-running tenure makes them one of Switzerland's most established acts in the goregrind genre.
Death metal act from Osnabruck in Lower Saxony, Germany, that evolved from standard death metal toward brutal death metal since 2009. Their stylistic progression reflects a deepening commitment to the genre's most extreme and punishing tendencies.
Death, groove, and thrash metal band from Zagreb, Croatia formed in 2023. They bring a versatile blend of extreme metal from the Croatian capital.
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