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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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San Antonio, Texas's Slaughter Witch have been dealing in death metal since 2017, occupying the same city as Slaughter Swamp and adding to San Antonio's quietly fertile extreme metal ecosystem. Their name plants one foot in occult imagery and another in the genre's violent traditions.
Kungsors Slaughtercoffin deliver death metal from the small Vastmanland town since 2016. Their death-receptacle name channels the containment of slaughtered remains into compositions of small-town Swedish extremity.
Slaughtercult channel black/thrash metal from Zaragoza, combining the atmospheric darkness of black metal with thrash's breakneck velocity. Formed in 2022, they bring cult-like intensity to the Aragonese extreme scene.
Slaughtered Cadaver deal in death metal from Leipzig, their graphically morbid name setting the tone for music that revels in extreme horror. Emerging in 2025, they represent the newest wave of Saxon death metal.
A brand-new act out of Citrus Heights, California, Slaughtered Jehovah launched in 2025 with the kind of blasphemous name that signals a death metal band operating in the genre's most aggressively anti-religious tradition. Their Sacramento-area origins place them in a region with deep roots in underground metal.
Hailing from Peru, New York — a small Adirondack-adjacent town — Slaughtered Remains have kept death metal alive in a rural corner of upstate New York since 2007. Their persistence in an area far removed from major urban metal scenes marks them as a genuine underground institution.
Fairbanks, Alaska's Slaughtered Serpent bring raw black metal and noisegrind to one of the most geographically remote corners of the American extreme underground, formed in 2024 in a city where the long Arctic winters lend themselves to music this bleak and confrontational.
Slaughterer deliver death/thrash metal from Regensburg, combining the genres' most aggressive elements into a fierce, dual-pronged assault. Active since 2018, they bring relentless extremity to the Bavarian metal scene.
A Los Angeles thrash metal band formed in 2018, this Slaughterhouse draws from Southern California's rich thrash heritage — a lineage that runs from the Big Four's influence through decades of LA underground bands keeping the genre's speed and aggression alive.
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