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Featured Album
The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
We Rule the Waves (2025)
05/12 @ 1st SUMMIT ARENA at Cambria County War Memorial, Johnstown
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Brutal death-grindcore band from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, formed in 2015. They deliver punishing extremity from Northern Ireland.
Death-grind act from Quartu Sant'Elena near Cagliari, Sardinia, formed in 2019. Carne Guasta — Italian for 'rotten meat' — delivers grinding extremity from the Mediterranean island.
Death metal act from Volterra in Pisa province, Tuscany, active since 2013. Carnefix delivers punishing death metal from the ancient Etruscan hilltop town.
Death metal act from Gällivare, a mining town above the Arctic Circle in Swedish Lapland, active since 2012. Carneous delivers death metal from one of Scandinavia's most remote metal outposts.
Death metal act from Kwidzyn in Pomerania, active since 2011. Carnes delivers straightforward death metal from northern Poland.
Death metal band from Osby in Skåne, active since 2003. Carneus has spent over two decades delivering death metal from southern Sweden's countryside.
Black-death metal band from Kitee in North Karelia, Finland, active since 2013. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the remote Finnish lakeland.
Death metal act from Lisbon, formed in 2024. Carnificina — Latin for 'butchery' — brings fresh brutality to the Portuguese capital's extreme scene.
Death metal act from Velenje, Slovenia, active since 2016. Carnifliate channels extreme metal from the former coal-mining city in the Šalek Valley.
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