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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Death metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2025, singing requiems for the putrid dead through fresh death metal from the northern capital. They join the newest wave of Petersburg extreme metal.
Death metal and goregrind act from France, formed in 2023, dealing in the most deliberately offensive and extreme forms of grindcore. They push the boundaries of taste with visceral sonic violence.
A Saarland grindcore-death project since 2020, Putrid Scum delivers exactly the filthy, uncompromising extremity their name advertises. Their location in Germany's smallest state concentrates their aggression into dense, explosive bursts.
Baltimore black metal act Putrid Servant have been active since 2012, carving out space in the city's notably prolific extreme metal scene with a cold, orthodox approach to the genre. Their decade-plus tenure marks them as a persistent underground presence in the mid-Atlantic black metal world.
Dayton, Ohio's Putrid Stu is a goregrind and brutal death metal project that leans hard into the absurdist, splatter-film side of the genre — a one-person or small-band affair that has been churning out crude, blasting extremity since 2018. The Dayton underground has produced some fierce acts, and Putrid Stu fits squarely in that tradition of low-budget, high-intensity noise.
San Diego death metal outfit Putrid Tomb formed in 2020 and plugs directly into Southern California's deep well of old-school death metal worship, favoring thick guitar tones and punishing tempos over any modern sheen. They are part of the steady post-2015 wave of OSDM revivalists that has kept the San Diego underground particularly active.
Death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2018, channeling putrid visions through aggressive death metal from the Swedish capital. They bring festering intensity to the Stockholm scene.
Ripping Slam / Brutal Death Metal from Livingston.
Black metal band from Russia, formed in 2023, whose Latin name means 'rotten doctrines.' They channel decay and corruption through raw black metal.
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