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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Savage Melodic Death Metal from San Antonio.
Baltimore sludge and post-metal band weaving doom heaviness with dark atmosphere and emotional weight. Their slow, oppressive sound draws from the bleaker edges of heavy music.
Elizabeth, New Jersey black-death metal band fusing icy black metal atmospherics with death metal's unrelenting brutality. Their sound is dark, punishing, and rooted in extreme metal orthodoxy.
New Jersey act fusing deathcore's modern heaviness with death metal brutality and groove metal's rhythmic punch. Their sound is heavy, djent-adjacent, and built for maximum impact.
Pinckney, Michigan black-death metal band combining the icy aggression of black metal with death metal's crushing brutality. Their Midwest roots bring a raw, unpolished intensity to their sound.
Death metal band from Lohja, Finland, formed in 2015. They deliver filthy, cult-themed death metal from the Finnish lake town.
Death metal band from Ypres, Belgium, active since 2014, spanning black metal, deathcore, and deathgrind. Their 2020 album 'Prophecies' and earlier 'Retaliation Of The Suppressed' showcase a versatile approach to extreme metal from the historic Flanders Fields region.
Chicopee, Massachusetts brutal death metal band delivering blasphemous, gore-drenched extremity from the New England underground. Dense, guttural, and uncompromisingly brutal.
Yakima, Washington brutal death metal act bringing grinding heaviness and guttural ferocity from the Pacific Northwest interior. Their music is dense, morbid, and relentlessly heavy.
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