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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Wake up Dead (feat. Dave Mustaine) (2022)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Splattered Coroner is a brutal death metal band from Hamilton, Montana, formed in 2014, representing an unusual outpost of the genre in a state not typically associated with extreme metal, delivering gore-obsessed brutality from the rural Northwest.
Splattered Entrails is a brutal death metal and goregrind band from Levittown, New York, formed in 2006, combining the guttural density of brutal death with the surgical gore fixation of goregrind in the Long Island underground.
Splattered Spine is a brutal death metal band from Bear, Delaware, formed in 2023, representing one of the newer entrants in the Mid-Atlantic brutal death underground with a focus on crushing, bone-pulverizing heaviness.
Splattershy is a slam and brutal death metal band from Newark, Delaware, formed in 2025, one of the most recently active acts in the genre blending the breakdowns of slam with full-bore brutal death extremity.
SplitSick is a brutal death metal band from San Francisco, California, formed in 2019, delivering dense, low-tuned brutality from one of the Bay Area's more extreme metal acts.
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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.
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