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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Mentally Murdered (2019)
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London-based slamming brutal death metal band active since 2007. Their split release Vomiting Putrid Blasphemy showcases four tracks of blasphemous slam with guttural vocals and crushing breakdowns.
Punishing brutal death metal from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2024. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Larissa-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2011, 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.
German brutal death metal and goregrind band from Saxony, formed in 2020. They specialize in the most extreme end of death metal with goregrind's deliberately revolting sonic aesthetic.
French slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band from Bordeaux, formed in 2025. They specialize in the most extreme end of death metal from southwestern France.
Uppsala-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2014, 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.
Brutal death metal band from Lida, Belarus, active since 2012. They deliver pulverizing brutal death metal from the western Belarusian town.
Punishing brutal death metal from Lisbon, formed in 2006. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
German melodic death metal band from the Recklinghausen-Dortmund area, formed in 2013, whose sound evolved from melodic death metal and metalcore toward brutal death metal. Their increasingly extreme trajectory reflects a deepening commitment to heaviness.
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