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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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German heavy/death metal band from Flensburg, formed in 2024. They merge traditional heavy metal power with death metal's guttural intensity from the far north.
French thrash/death metal band from Poitiers, formed in 2016. They deliver bestial thrash-death from the historic Aquitaine city.
Uddevalla-based thrash metal act active since 2018, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Swedish filter.
French black metal and crust band from Rennes in Brittany, formed in 2013. They merge black metal's darkness with crust punk's raw DIY ethic.
Bestial Nuclear Atrocity is a Brazilian black/death metal band formed in 2022. They released "Holocausto Podre e Profano da Desolação" in September 2022, a recording mastered by Filipe Silva that places the band within Brazil's underground bestial black/death metal tradition.
Bestial Perception is a brutal and technical death metal band from La Plata, Argentina, featuring vocalist Necroseba and guitarist Martin Furkaz. The band released their debut album Pareidolik in December 2023 through Artes Negras Productions, with the album's title drawn from the psychological concept of pareidolia — the tendency to perceive meaningful shapes in random surfaces. Their sound centers on themes of catastrophe, sickness, and destruction.
Uncompromising death metal from Stockholm, active since 2020. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Bestial Possession is a Black/Thrash Metal band from Trujillo, Peru, formed in 2003 and currently signed to Tyrants Records. The band blends raw South American black metal aggression with thrash fury, drawing on themes of Satan, sex, and death. Their discography spans demos and splits from the late 2000s through to the 2020 full-length "Altares sangrientos" and the 2021 split "Legacy of Terror."
Bestial Profanation is an old school death metal band from San Antonio Oeste, Río Negro, Argentina, formed in 2021 by guitarist and vocalist Matias Carrasco alongside bassist Cristian Sarmiento, drummer Alexis Basanta, and rhythm guitarist Alexander Alonso. The band released the three-track EP Legion of the Undead in 2021, followed by their debut full-length Sanctuary of the Living Dead in January 2022 through Argentine label Putrid Records. Their sound draws on the rawness of Autopsy alongside Swedish and Floridian death metal influences.
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