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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/09 @ Mr Smalls Theatre, Millvale
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Kolbuszowa death/thrash metal act active since 2003, delivering over two decades of aggressive riffing from the Subcarpathian voivodeship. Their sustained output speaks to a deep commitment to extreme music.
Necrosectomy is a brutal death metal band from Surrey, UK. The band delivers punishing brutality in the tradition of the genre's most extreme expressions.
Necrosed is a progressive death metal band from El Ejido in Almeria, active since 2012. The band brings technically ambitious death metal to the agricultural heartland of southeastern Spain.
Necrosemen is a black/death metal band from Sion, Switzerland, active since 2006. Nearly two decades of activity from the Valais region have cemented the band's place in the Swiss extreme metal underground.
Necrosferatul is an Austrian antifascist black metal project blending raw vampyric black metal with punk, 60s psychedelia, surf rock, and 80s speed metal. Their discography spans 'Ancient Bloodlines Mean Nothing' through 'The Last Days of Mankind,' the latter featuring unconventional instrumentation including ukulele, pedal steel, and Appalachian dulcimer.
Kremenchuk death metal act launched in 2023, delivering brutal extremity from central Ukraine. Their punishing approach channels the weight of old-school death metal.
Necroshine is a black/death metal band from Milan, Italy, active since 2010. They pair the darkness of extreme metal with an eerie luminescence suggested by their name.
Necrosi is a death metal band from Agrigento, Sicily, Italy, active since 2017. They deliver decay-themed death metal from this city overlooking the ancient Greek temples of the Valle dei Templi.
Savage Brutal Death Metal out of Texas.
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