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Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Brutal death metal band from Hildesheim, Germany, formed in 2022. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from the Lower Saxon foothills.
Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Manchester, England, emerging in 2025. They blend brutal death metal, deathcore, melodic death metal, and thrash into an ambitious assault.
Brutal death metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2018. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from the Loire-Atlantique capital.
Brutal death metal act from Smederevo, Serbia, formed in 2025. Cave Disease brings fresh brutality to the Serbian death metal scene.
Brutal death metal project from Russia, formed in 2025. Cavemode delivers cavernous, punishing death metal.
Brutal death metal act from Izhevsk in the Udmurt Republic, active since 2014. Cephalic Impurity delivers punishing brutality from the Ural region.
Brutal death metal act from Vladivostok, Russia's Pacific port city, active since 2015. Cephalitis by Torture channels relentless brutality from the Far East.
Brutal death metal project from Moscow and Saint Petersburg, formed in 2024. Cepharea delivers punishing death metal from Russia's two largest cities.
Brutal death metal act from Saint Petersburg, active since 2012. Cerebral Abscess has spent over a decade delivering punishing brutality from Russia's northern capital.
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