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Paper Tiger (2025)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Avant-garde black metal project from Russia, formed in 2020. Carnation Maze pushes black metal into experimental, unconventional territory.
Brutal death-grindcore band from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, formed in 2015. They deliver punishing extremity from Northern Ireland.
Sludge metal band from Lyon, France, active since 2013. They deliver thick, oppressive sludge from France's second city.
Carne de Cañón is a Heavy/Groove Metal band from Cuenca, Ecuador, active since 1999. The band released their self-titled full-length in 2018, a 13-track collection that draws together the best of their catalog and showcases a groove-driven sound firmly rooted in the metal tradition of Ecuador's southern sierra. They continue to operate independently out of Cuenca.
Carne de Cañón is a Heavy/Groove Metal band from Cuenca, Ecuador, active since 1999. The band released their self-titled full-length in 2018, a 13-track collection that draws together the best of their catalog and showcases a groove-driven sound firmly rooted in the metal tradition of Ecuador's southern sierra. They continue to operate independently out of Cuenca.
Death-grind act from Quartu Sant'Elena near Cagliari, Sardinia, formed in 2019. Carne Guasta — Italian for 'rotten meat' — delivers grinding extremity from the Mediterranean island.
A Massachusetts brutal death and grindcore act born in 2025, trading in the kind of visceral, compressed extremity that sits at the genre's most punishing outer edge.
San Leandro death metal band incorporating melodic death metal sensibilities into a framework of technical aggression, active since 2017 balancing hooks and harmonic depth against straightforward brutality.
Death metal act from Volterra in Pisa province, Tuscany, active since 2013. Carnefix delivers punishing death metal from the ancient Etruscan hilltop town.
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