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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Norman, Oklahoma death metal and deathcore band delivering a punishing combination of old-school death metal brutality and modern breakdowns, honed through over a decade in the Oklahoma underground.
Death-thrash metal band from Lyon, France, active since 2011. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from France's second city.
Brutal death metal band from Enontekio in Finnish Lapland, active since 2010. They deliver extreme brutality from one of the most remote locations in the Finnish metal scene.
Carnage Valley was a death/black metal band from Belém, Pará, Brazil, documented on Encyclopaedia Metallum as a split-up act. The band was associated with Vampiria Records and focused on themes of destruction and death within the extreme metal underground of northern Brazil.
Heavy metal act from Rotterdam, formed in 2023. Carnage Within delivers aggressive, riff-driven traditional metal from the Netherlands' second-largest city.
Death metal and grindcore band from Slagelse, Denmark, active since 2012. They deliver a fierce blend of death metal brutality and grindcore velocity.
Heavy and power metal band from Umeå in northern Sweden, active since 2014. Carnal Agony delivers anthemic traditional metal from the land of the midnight sun.
Carnal Atrocity is a death metal/grindcore duo from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2020 and comprising Karine Campanille (vocals, guitar, bass, synths) and Emiliano Borges (drums). The band released their debut album "Degenerescência" in June 2020, recorded at Estúdio Mitra and mixed at Crossroads Studio in São José dos Campos, São Paulo.
Milwaukee brutal death metal outfit specializing in the genre's most extreme end — gore-drenched lyrics, guttural vocals, and dense, down-tuned riffing executed with surgical precision.
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