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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Head Cage (2018)
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The Second Coming (1988)
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Splitwig is a brutal death metal band from Newark, Delaware, formed in 2012, delivering the dense, guttural onslaught of US brutal death metal from the Mid-Atlantic underground over more than a decade of activity.
Texas slam and brutal death metal act Spontaneous Curettage formed in 2024, delivering dense, gore-obsessed extremity rooted in the slam subgenre's tradition of pulverizing rhythms and guttural vocals.
Madison, Wisconsin's Sporadic Impulse emerged in 2024 playing slam and brutal death metal, adding another voice to the Midwest's growing extreme metal underground with gut-wrenching heaviness and percussive brutality.
Boise, Idaho's Spore play slam and brutal death metal, emerging in 2019 with a focus on the suffocating grooves and visceral extremity that define the slam subgenre.
Portland, Oregon's Spume have played slam and brutal death metal since 2017, contributing to the Pacific Northwest's extreme metal community with dense, suffocating heaviness and bone-crushing rhythmic assault.
Fort Wayne, Indiana brutal death metal act Squelching formed in 2020, bringing the genre's signature hyper-compressed heaviness and guttural extremity to a city with a small but dedicated extreme metal following.
Austin brutal death metal signed to Century Media. One of the fastest-rising new Texas death metal acts.
Standing on a Floor of Bodies is a San Francisco, California brutal death metal and grindcore band formed in 2010, unleashing gory, technically precise extremity from one of the West Coast's most active underground metal cities.
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