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Infinite Terror (2024)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Brutal death metal and goregrind band from Perm, Russia, formed in 2016, dealing in rotting corpse-themed extremity from the Ural region. They bring nearly a decade of putrid violence.
Brutal death metal band from Zaandam, Netherlands, formed in 2023, dealing in rotting, festering brutal death metal. They bring fresh decay to the North Holland extreme metal scene.
Slamming brutal death metal band from Liège, Belgium, active since 2009 with a prolific catalog of 13 releases including Bite The Curb and The Deep End Of Horror. They are a stalwart of the Belgian brutal death metal underground, delivering unrelenting slam and guttural heaviness.
Slam and brutal death metal band from the Netherlands, formed in 2015, delivering feverishly heavy slam death metal. Their name evokes the internal collapse that matches their crushing sound.
Slam and brutal death metal band from Bucharest, Romania, formed in 2025 and citing Gorevent and Hymenotomy as primary influences. Their sound centers on primitive crushing riffs, suffocating grooves, and guttural vocals, with lyrics that reject typical gore fantasy in favor of exploring themes of real human violence and social cruelty.
A Lower Austrian goregrind project driven by sole instrumentalist Louis Simmer and vocalist Azerate Nakamura, Radiologist self-describes their sound as '100% Medically Accurate Brutal Goregrind.' Releases like Subdural Hematoma Removal and A Lethal Dose lean into anatomical horror imagery and relentlessly visceral extreme metal.
Rancid Taint Discharge is a brutal death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2020. The band delivers punishing, uncompromising brutality from Finland's former medieval capital.
Raster Density is a progressive/brutal death metal band from Jyväskylä in central Finland, active since 2012. The band merges progressive complexity with brutal death metal extremity from the Finnish lake district.
Ratpile is a slam/brutal death metal band from Lancashire in northwest England, formed in 2019. The band delivers punishing slam and brutal death metal from the industrial north.
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