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Putrefact Christ is a raw black metal and grindcore band from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, formed in 2024 with Satanic and anti-Christian lyrical themes. Their debut album "Black Metal Against You All" was released on May 12, 2024 through Jems Label as a limited cassette of 30 copies, containing nine tracks including "We Are the True Black Metal" and "We Who Drinks the Blood of Your Bastardo Messiah."
Putrefacta is a goregrind project from Fortaleza, Ceará, formed in 2022 by José Neto, who handles vocals, guitars, and drum programming, with Fabrício Machado on bass. The project released the EP Repulsive Regurgitations in January 2024 and followed with The Decay of Forgotten Lives later that year, then the 14-track album Natimorto on January 16, 2025 through Disturbed Mind Records.
Chicago death metal and grindcore band formed in 2015, operating within the city's deep-rooted tradition of extreme music and drawing on both genres' shared appetite for speed, brutality, and lyrical grotesquerie.
American brutal death metal and goregrind project formed in 2020, doubling down on the most viscerally extreme end of the death metal spectrum with hyper-blasted tempos, guttural vocal extremity, and gore-fixated imagery drawn from the goregrind tradition.
Slam and brutal death metal band from Yekaterinburg, Russia, formed in 2025, delivering graphic surgical extremity from the Ural capital. They represent the newest wave of Russian slam death metal.
Brutal death metal and goregrind band from Perm, Russia, formed in 2016, dealing in rotting corpse-themed extremity from the Ural region. They bring nearly a decade of putrid violence.
Death metal band from Enschede, Netherlands, formed in 2019, delivering putrid, old-school death metal from the Overijssel region. Their name captures the decomposition theme central to their sound.
Death and doom metal band from Belgrade, Serbia, formed in 2024, delivering filthy, putrid death-doom from the Serbian capital. They bring freshly rotting extremity to Belgrade's metal community.
Cleveland's Putrefy deal in a corroded hybrid of black and death metal, leaning into atmosphere as much as brutality with a raw, caustic sound that reflects the rust-belt underground. Active since 2014, they occupy a grimy middle ground where blastbeats collide with dissonant, suffocating riffcraft.
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