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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Technical death metal act with roots stretching back to 1993 in Connecticut, eventually relocating to Florida and landing on Willowtip Records with a rigorous, psychologically themed brand of technical death metal.
Death metal and grindcore band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2020. They deliver grinding extremity from the Catalan underground.
Capiroto is a black metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2021. The band plays raw, aggressive black metal with lyrical themes of vengeance, diabolism, violence, and chaos, and released the EP "Pentagrama Tenebroso" in May 2023, recorded at Umbralian Studios in Rio de Janeiro.
Capita Septem et Cornva Decem is a black metal band from Santiago, Chile whose track and album titles are rendered entirely in Roman numerals referencing chapters and verses from the Book of Revelation. Their debut album XIII: I-XVIII, released in April 2018, consists of six tracks spanning nearly 48 minutes of dense, unhurried black metal.
California death/grind project active since 2021 on Anguished Records, operating in the brutal intersection of death metal and grindcore.
Ohio thrash/death metal band dealing in the aggressive overlap of thrash riffing and death metal intensity before splitting up.
New Jersey black metal and crust outfit emerging from Clementon in 2018, fusing the raw aggression of crust punk with the cold savagery of black metal.
Symphonic black metal project from Lviv in western Ukraine, formed in 2024. Capitollium merges orchestral grandeur with black metal from the cultural capital of western Ukraine.
Caporal is a heavy metal band from Campana, Buenos Aires province, formed in 2016. Their self-titled debut album, released the same year, features eleven tracks including "Navegante", "Las Ruinas Circulares", and "Psicosis", showcasing a traditional heavy metal approach rooted in the Buenos Aires province underground scene.
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