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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Enemies of Reality (Remixed & Remastered) (2003)
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El Paso death metal act named with a nod to horror and delivering music with genuine menace and brutality. CreepShow draws on the border city's scrappy underground to produce raw, heavy output.
Minnesota's Cremated blast through brutal death metal and grindcore with relentless speed and gory low-end punishment. The Lakeville act grinds bones to powder with blastbeats and cavernous downtuned savagery.
Fort Wayne, Indiana's Cremated Souls deliver straightforward death metal in the tradition of the American Midwest underground. Their approach emphasizes grinding heaviness and morbid thematic territory.
Burke, Virginia death metal band Cremation dug into the early-90s US underground scene with morbid riffing and a raw production aesthetic. They represent the dense, unglamorous death metal tradition of the mid-Atlantic region.
New Jersey's Cremation combined the crunch of death metal with the speed and attitude of thrash in the tradition of the tri-state area underground. Secaucus-based and unrelenting, they drew from both worlds without compromise.
Minnesota's Cremation fused death metal brutality with thrash metal aggression from within the Twin Cities underground scene. Their music reflected the raw, no-frills extremity of the Upper Midwest metal community.
Ferocious Heavy / Thrash Metal from Houston.
Chicago's Crematorium carved out a niche in the Midwest underground by fusing death metal's brutality with thrash metal's speed and drive. Their music reflects the uncompromising approach of the Illinois extreme metal scene.
Los Angeles's Crematorium merged the pit-ready aggression of death metal and hardcore with groove metal's head-down heaviness. Their sound captures the density and intensity of the LA underground's most extreme end.
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