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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.
Cadaver was formed in Norway in 1988 by guitarist Anders Odden and drummer Ole Bjerkebakke, releasing Hallucinating Anxiety in 1990, widely regarded as the first Norwegian death metal album. The band returned as Cadaver Inc. in 1999, releasing the aggressive and conceptually irreverent album Discipline in 2001, before dropping the Inc. suffix and releasing Necrosis in 2004. Odden reformed the band again in 2019 with Megadeth drummer Dirk Verbeuren, releasing Edder & Bile in 2020.
Slam and brutal death metal project from Galati launched in 2023, delivering guttural punishment from Romania's Danube port city. Their extreme approach plumbs the most visceral depths of the slam death metal spectrum.
Viennese thrash metal and metalcore act blending aggressive riffing with hardcore breakdowns. They combine the speed and technicality of thrash with the intensity and structure of modern metalcore.
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