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Fuck Love (2018)
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Paper Tiger (2025)
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Featured Groove Metal Album
State Of Unrest (2023)
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A New York City black metal project blending symphonic grandeur with dark, confrontational energy, formed in 2024 with a marriage of orchestral texture and black metal ferocity.
Death metal act from Ystad in Skåne, southern Sweden, formed in 2021. Carnalist channels crushing death metal from the far south of Scandinavia.
Hinesville, Georgia grinders fusing the blunt trauma of death metal with the velocity and aggression of grindcore since 2012, built on relentless speed and concise, punishing song structures.
Brooklyn outfit pulling from doom, traditional heavy metal, and thrash to craft a sound that is equal parts crushing and driving, occupying a gritty crossroads between old-school weight and aggressive momentum.
Groove-heavy-thrash act from Stockholm, formed in 2020. Carnareum delivers versatile, riff-driven metal from the Swedish capital.
Technical death metal and grindcore act from Kristiansand, southern Norway, active since 2012. Carnassial — named after the shearing teeth of predators — delivers precise, technically demanding extremity.
Death metal act from the Dalmatian city of Šibenik, Croatia, active since 2011. Carnate deals in blunt, unrelenting brutality rooted in early European death metal.
Progressive metal act from Istanbul, formed in 2018. Carnatia crafts intricate progressive metal from Turkey's largest city.
Death metal band from Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium, active since 2018, with a discography including 'Chapel of Abhorrence,' 'Where Death Lies,' and 'Cursed Mortality.' They have established themselves as one of Belgium's premier death metal acts with a steadily growing catalog.
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