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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Goregrind band from Ostrava, Czech Republic, founded in 1997. Still active after over 25 years, Carnal Diafragma's prolific output includes the 2024 album The Garden of Earthly Delights, maintaining their signature brand of grotesque extremity.
Buffalo death metal act formed in 2013, bringing the cold, brutal spirit of the upstate New York underground to bear on riff-driven, uncompromising extreme metal.
Black-thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2014. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash aggression from the Greek capital.
A raw black metal project from Westchester County channeling the lo-fi, abrasive aesthetic of the USBM underground with primitive production and bleak atmosphere.
Groove and thrash metal band from Hanover, Germany, emerging in 2025. They deliver heavy grooves and thrash metal velocity from the Lower Saxon capital.
Carnal Forge formed in Sala, Sweden in 1997, founded as a side project by Jari Kuusisto and Stefan Westerberg from the band In Thy Dreams, and named after a track on Carcass's Heartwork. Their debut Who's Gonna Burn appeared in 1998, and the band went on to sign with Century Media Records, releasing Firedemon in 2000. Their sound fused Swedish melodic death metal structures with the blunt force of American thrash.
Death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing death metal from the Greek capital.
Death metal band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2022. They channel old-school death metal darkness from the historic Hessian university town.
Death metal band from Zwolle in Overijssel, active since 2011. Carnal Leftovers traffics in morbid, old-school death metal from the eastern Netherlands.
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