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Death metal band from Várzea Paulista, São Paulo, with a lineup of Wesley Gomides on vocals, Fernando Romano on guitars, Igor Dead on bass, and Marco "Porco" on drums. Their debut full-length As the Slurry Consumes was recorded at Sotão Studio and released in August 2024 on Iron Fortress Records and Rotten Tomb Records. The album is dedicated to the memory of the band's late associate Luciano Battistini.
Rotten Evisceration is a death metal band from Lima, Peru, formed in 2006 in the El Agustino district. Rooted in the American death metal school of the early 1990s, with Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, and Immolation among their primary influences, the band released their debut album Ancient Grave Ascension in 2018 through Blood Splattered Axe Records and Guts 'n' Blood Records. Their lyrics draw heavily from horror cinema rather than typical gore imagery, particularly the Italian splatter film tradition.
Rotten Evisceration is a death metal band from Lima, Peru, formed in 2006 in the El Agustino district. Rooted in the American death metal school of the early 1990s, with Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, and Immolation among their primary influences, the band released their debut album Ancient Grave Ascension in 2018 through Blood Splattered Axe Records and Guts 'n' Blood Records. Their lyrics draw heavily from horror cinema rather than typical gore imagery, particularly the Italian splatter film tradition.
Slam/brutal death metal band from Piatra Neamț, Romania, formed in 2019. Their deliberately crude name accompanies slamming brutality from the Moldavian city.
Thrash and death metal band from Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, formed in 2015. The band features James Pugens on vocals, Alex Rodrigues on guitars, Marcello Caminha Filho on bass, and Machine on drums, and released the EP Empires Will Fall in 2013 and the full-length Inhuman Sovereign on October 28, 2015, recorded at Jardim Elétrico Studios.
Rotten Flesh is a groove/death metal band from Velen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2024. The band delivers heavy grooves and death metal brutality from the Münsterland region.
One-person death metal and grindcore project from Minas Gerais, Brazil, with all instruments and vocals handled by Jefferson Death. The band released the EP Nascer, viver, morrer e apodrecer... in January 2018, a five-track collection tagged as old school splatter death metal whose tracklist includes "Diário de um Legísta" and "O Estripador."
Brutal death metal/grindcore band from Russia, formed in 2021. Their horror-themed name accompanies extreme brutality.
Portland's Rotten Funeral emerged in 2020, trafficking in the raw and corrosive sounds of black metal with a spirit that feels rooted in the Pacific Northwest underground. Their work is suffused with a cold, ceremonial atmosphere that draws on the genre's most primitive and uncompromising traditions.
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