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Paper Tiger (2025)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Brutal death-grindcore band from Brighton and Hove, England, formed in 2024. They deliver crushing, chaotic extremity from the English south coast.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania brutal death metal act delivering the grinding heaviness, blasting percussion, and guttural extremity that define the American brutal death underground.
Brutal death metal act from Nadym, a remote city in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug above the Arctic Circle, active since 2016. Cerebral Bleeding delivers extreme metal from one of the most isolated scenes on the planet.
Brutal death metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, active since 2011. They deliver devastating, technically proficient brutality from Scotland's largest city.
Toledo, Ohio band spanning death metal, deathcore, and progressive metal, combining the breakdown intensity of deathcore with the technical ambition and shifting structures of progressive death.
Groove death/thrash from San Marcos. Has opened for Anthrax, The Black Dahlia Murder, Devildriver, Cattle Decapitation, and Suffocation.
Death metal band from Cadiz, Kentucky, playing straightforward brutal death metal in the American underground tradition.
Massachusetts brutal death metal act delivering the genre's hallmark density, with crushing riffs, blasting drumming, and guttural vocal extremity.
Brutal death metal act from Gothenburg, formed in 2018. Cerebral Digestion delivers punishing brutality from Sweden's metal capital.
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