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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Black metal project from Nizhnevartovsk in the oil-producing region of western Siberia, formed in 2017. Cadaveris channels dark black metal from the frozen Khanty-Mansi heartland.
Grindcore band from the UK, formed in 2021. They deliver short, intense bursts of chaotic grinding fury.
Long-running Austrian extreme metal project formed in Graz in 1993, originally rooted in goregrind before shifting toward a death metal and neofolk hybrid. Their extensive catalog includes albums like 'Never Arrive, Never Return' and 'Burn Brightly Alone,' exploring dark, contemplative themes with experimental tendencies.
A brutal deathcore band from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Cadaverous Contingency melds the crushing low-end devastation of brutal death metal with the breakdowns and rhythmic aggression of deathcore.
Cadaverous Incarnate is a brutal death metal band from Santiago, Chile, with roots going back to 1998 and a second active period from 2010 onward. The band released their debut full-length "Fetal and Majestic Rotten Incarnation" independently in 2016, later reissued by Charred Remains Records in 2017, and followed it with "Still Spitting Rotten Vermin" in 2023; they are noted for low-tuned, blast-heavy compositions with slam elements and have shared stages with international acts including Nile.
Black-speed metal band from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2021. They fuse the raw darkness of black metal with the velocity of speed metal from eastern Finland.
Formed in Santa Ana, California in 2024, Cadaverous Odour takes the splatter and speed of brutal death metal and goregrind and channels it through an intense, blood-soaked sonic attack.
Death metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2023. They channel putrid, old-school death metal darkness from the German capital.
Blackened thrash act from Warsaw, active since 2011. Cadavra delivers raw, aggressive extreme metal from the Polish capital.
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