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Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Brutal death metal band from Paris, France, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh, punishing brutality to the Parisian underground.
Death metal outfit from Victorville, California delivering brutal, no-frills extremity rooted in the old-school tradition, representing the persistent underground death metal scene of the Inland Empire.
Death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2014. They channel death metal aggression from the Greek capital.
Death metal and grindcore band from Liverpool, England, formed in 2023. They deliver filthy, grinding extremity from the Merseyside city.
Tampa death metal band drawing from the deep well of Florida's legendary extreme metal tradition, forging a sound steeped in crushing riffs and sepulchral atmosphere.
Death metal act from Gothenburg, formed in 2021. Carnal Savagery delivers old-school death metal from the city more commonly associated with melodic death metal.
Death metal band from Nokia, Finland, formed in 2021. They channel death metal aggression from the Pirkanmaa region.
Death metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2014. With a prolific catalog spanning releases from Rotten Remains through Dismembered Flesh, Carnal Tomb deliver relentless, uncompromising death metal.
Death metal and grindcore band from Seinajoki, Finland, formed in 2015. They deliver a fierce blend of death metal brutality and grindcore velocity from the Ostrobothnian plains.
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