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For All To Blame (2022)
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Ripping / Pulling / Tearing (2019)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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Blackened brutal death metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2023. They blend black metal darkness with brutal death metal ferocity from Yorkshire.
New York death metal band carving out a grimy corner of the state's long-running extreme music tradition. Their sound leans into the filth and decay that the genre does best.
Providence, Rhode Island death metal act trading in the kind of fetid, rot-soaked heaviness the name implies. They carry on the New England underground's taste for grime-coated brutality.
Elliottsburg, Pennsylvania outfit specializing in the most physically oppressive end of brutal and slam death metal, where breakdowns feel less like transitions and more like cave-ins. Their music is designed to destroy whatever room it's played in.
San Luis Obispo, California death metal and grindcore band channeling the chaotic energy of both scenes into short, vicious blasts of noise. They favor speed and savagery over any pretense of melody.
Death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2021. They deliver visceral, punishing death metal from the Danish capital.
Death metal act from Kostroma in central Russia, formed in 2021. Corpse Worship delivers morbid death metal from the ancient Volga city.
German grindcore project emerging in 2026. They deliver abrasive, blast-beat-driven extremity in the grindcore tradition.
Melodic black-thrash act from Woerden, Utrecht province, active since 2012. Corpsecandle weaves melodic hooks into blackened thrash from central Netherlands.
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