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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Spanish brutal death metal band from Sarrià de Ter near Girona, active since 1998. With over a quarter century of brutality, they are one of Catalonia's most seasoned death metal outfits.
Estonian brutal death metal band from Tallinn, formed in 2013. They deliver devastating brutal death metal from Estonia's capital city.
Slamming brutal death metal unit from Ried im Innkreis, Austria, formed in 2019. Their short, punishing tracks like "Consumed at Birth" trade in guttural vocals and crushing breakdowns typical of the slam underground.
Moscow-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2012, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
French brutal death metal and grindcore band from Saint-Omer in Pas-de-Calais, formed in 2017. They deliver terrifying blasts of brutal death-grind from the far north of France.
Grindcore and brutal death metal band from London, active since 2016. Their albums A Jigsaw of a Flock of Geese and Leftover Pieces deliver grinding extremity from the London underground.
German slam/brutal death metal and deathcore band from Cologne, formed in 2012. They specialize in extreme, deliberately provocative brutal death metal with slam breakdowns.
Palermo-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2019, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
Punishing brutal death metal from Fgura, formed in 2025. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
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