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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Death metal band from Vigo, Spain, active since 2006. With two decades of activity, Cadalso are veterans of the Galician death metal scene.
Cadalso is a progressive heavy metal band from Santiago, Chile. The band released their self-titled debut album in January 2020 through a consortium of labels including ROAR Records, PureSteel Records, Eonian, and Steel Gallery, featuring seven tracks that blend traditional heavy metal with progressive structures.
A death metal band from Columbus, Ohio, Cadavarice pursues an uncompromising old-school approach to the genre, built on crushing riffs and blunt, violent energy.
Thrash metal band from Castrillon in Asturias, Spain, active since 2012. They deliver aggressive thrash from the northern Spanish coast.
Death metal act from Novosibirsk, Siberia, formed in 2023. Cadaver Carnivore delivers brutal death metal from Russia's third-largest city.
Death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2022. They deliver crushing death metal from the Greek capital.
Grindcore act from Padua, Italy, formed in 2017. Cadaver Cum traffics in vulgar, blast-beat-driven extremity from the Veneto underground.
A death metal act from Montana, Cadaver Cunt leans into the genre's most abrasive and brutal traditions with unfiltered aggression and no interest in subtlety.
Death metal band from Duisburg, Germany, active since 2013. They forge unrelenting death metal brutality from the industrial Ruhr Valley.
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