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Cadaveric Mutation is a brutal death metal duo from Sorocaba, São Paulo state, Brazil, playing a style described as primitive cavernous death metal rooted in old-school influences. The band released their "Demo 2024" through Iron Fortress Records (USA) in February 2024, followed by the EP "Sexual Devouring and Transmutation" through Demonical Devastation Records in June 2024. Their music draws on the cavernous, putrid aesthetics of early brutal death metal.
Death metal band from England, formed in 2024. They channel perverse, extreme death metal darkness.
Cadaveric Resin is a Chilean slam/brutal death metal and goregrind project consisting of Raniit4 on vocals and drum programming, and Myiasis on bass and guitars. The duo released their debut full-length "Mucosa from the Eye Sockets" in April 2025 through Ultra Noisy Shit Prods., a 12-track effort recorded and mastered at Miasmatic Myiasis Studio.
A death metal and grindcore band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cadaveric Spasm has been grinding since 2009, channeling the collision of DM brutality and grind's spastic, short-form aggression.
Death metal and grindcore band from Lahti, Finland. They deliver chaotic, grinding extremity from the Finnish lake district.
Death metal and goregrind band from Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, formed in 2024. They bring the filth and extremity of goregrind alongside crushing death metal from one of Bulgaria's oldest cities.
Black metal project from Nizhnevartovsk in the oil-producing region of western Siberia, formed in 2017. Cadaveris channels dark black metal from the frozen Khanty-Mansi heartland.
Grindcore band from the UK, formed in 2021. They deliver short, intense bursts of chaotic grinding fury.
Long-running Austrian extreme metal project formed in Graz in 1993, originally rooted in goregrind before shifting toward a death metal and neofolk hybrid. Their extensive catalog includes albums like 'Never Arrive, Never Return' and 'Burn Brightly Alone,' exploring dark, contemplative themes with experimental tendencies.
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