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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
06/09 @ Warehouse SWG3, Glasgow
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Post-metal and progressive act from Vilnius, Lithuania, active since 2017. Cunabula — Latin for 'cradle' — crafts expansive, atmospheric post-metal from the Baltic capital.
Raw black metal project from Kremenchuk in central Ukraine, formed in 2025. Cunnalhum channels lo-fi, abrasive black metal from the Dnieper region.
Heavy thrash band from Lisbon, active since 2010. Cunnilingus delivers provocatively-named, riff-driven metal from the Portuguese capital.
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Lowell, Massachusetts's Cunt Cuntly started as a bedroom solo project before expanding into a full band that pressed progressive ambition into a deathcore and death metal framework. Active from 2011 to 2017, they built an eclectic discography that showed a restless willingness to cover everything from Judas Priest to Creedence Clearwater Revival alongside their original extremity.
Death metal and grindcore band from Marseille, France, active since 2001. With over two decades of grinding extremity, they deliver abrasive chaos from the Mediterranean port.
Blackened death metal act from Odesa, formed in 2023. Cunt Gushes Tungsten delivers provocatively raw extreme metal from the Black Sea port city.
Death metal and grindcore band from Taunton, England, formed in 2014. They deliver provocative, abrasive extremity from Somerset.
Los Angeles's Cuntamination operate in the most punishing end of brutal death metal, favoring maximum heaviness and genre-specific extremity over nuance or experimentation. The Southern California act is part of a region that has quietly sustained a fertile underground brutal death scene operating well below the mainstream radar.
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