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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Tremors from Singen near Lake Constance deliver death metal with the seismic force their geological name promises since 2017. Their sound shakes with tectonic brutality from the southernmost edge of Baden-Württemberg, close to the Swiss and Austrian borders.
Tren Loco is a heavy/speed metal institution from Grand Bourg, Buenos Aires, with a discography spanning decades that includes albums such as "Tempestades" (1992), "No me importa!" (1996), "Carne Viva" (2000), "Ruta 197" (2002), "Sangresur" (2006), and "Prisioneros de la tierra" (2022). The band has shared stages with international acts including Saxon, Skid Row, and Judas Priest, and won second place at the Yamaha Band Explosion contest in Japan in 1991.
Boston thrash outfit that has been grinding since 2016, channeling the city's hardcore-adjacent intensity into straight-ahead thrash with a raw, no-nonsense delivery. Their Bandcamp handle suggests New York crossover influences feeding into their New England sound.
Trench Foot is a death metal band from Liverpool, formed in 2021. Named after the infamous World War I affliction, their music brings wartime brutality to the Merseyside death metal scene.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma thrash band formed in 2014, bringing aggressive, technically tight metal to a part of the country not typically associated with the genre. Over a decade of activity, they've become a fixture in Oklahoma's small but dedicated heavy metal underground.
Ohio brutal death metal and grindcore act formed in 2020, dealing in short, violent bursts of distorted noise with the surgical precision of death metal riffing beneath the chaos. Their name does not oversell the filth.
Bestial war metal from West Texas. Demo released through Nuclear War Now! Productions, debut full-length on Transcending Obscurity Records.
World War Metal from Austin featuring members of Imprecation and Morbosidad. Debut full-length Commandoccult released 2022 on Godz Ov War Productions.
Austin's Trenchant deal in blackened death metal of the uncompromising variety — dense, caustic, and unrelenting since their 2018 formation. Their approach fuses the atmospherics of raw black metal with the brute physicality of death metal, making them a notable presence on the Texas extreme underground scene.
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