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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Viennese brutal death metal outfit delivering slamming, guttural extremity since 2011. Their uncompromising approach to the genre emphasizes bludgeoning heaviness and technical precision within Vienna's thriving extreme metal community.
Kyiv's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this brutal death metal and death metal unit is among them — wielding HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition. Their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Brutal death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece active since 2017. They deliver crushing brutality from northern Greece.
Formed in 2024, this Wejherowo Brutal Death Metal and Death Metal outfit delivers labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Their place within Poland's relentlessly productive underground speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Emerging from Khabarovsk, this Russian act forges Brutal Death Metal and Death Metal built on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
Brutal death metal act from Rechitsa, Belarus, delivering punishing extremity since 2000 as one of the country's longest-running bands in the genre. Their quarter-century of activity reflects deep commitment to death metal's most uncompromising forms.
Brutal death metal act from Sulzbach-Rosenberg in Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2023, delivering punishing extremity. Their name captures the elevated, exalted intensity of their approach to the genre's most brutal forms.
Laying down tracks since 2020, this Akureyri Brutal Death Metal and Death Metal outfit delivers labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Their place within Iceland's volcanic metal underground speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
When Excoriation emerged in 2014 from Moscow, they brought with them a sound rooted in brutal death metal and death metal — all percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
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