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Necromanteum (2023)
Featured Black Metal Album
Vertigo (Sunbather: 10th Anniversary Remix / Remaster) (2023)
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Featured Power Metal Album
We Three Kings (Metal Holiday) (2015)
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Sons of Chaos is a technical brutal death metal band from Vacaville, California, formed in 2012, delivering punishing, precision-driven extremity rooted in the dense, technical tradition of the American brutal death metal scene.
Splatter Analyst is a California slam and brutal death metal band formed in 2024, built on crushing breakdowns, guttural vocals, and the low-tuned brutality that defines the modern slam aesthetic.
Splattered is a brutal death metal band from Fremont, California, formed in 2012, delivering technically precise and viscerally punishing brutal death with deep roots in the Bay Area's extreme metal scene.
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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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.
Sterilized is a slam/brutal death metal band from San Diego, California, formed in 2020. They specialize in the genre's most extreme subdivisions, delivering the grinding breakdowns and guttural intensity characteristic of West Coast slam death metal.
San Diego, California brutal death metal band formed in 2019, delivering the hyper-blasting percussion, guttural vocals, and dense, down-tuned riffing central to the brutal death metal style.
San Diego brutal death metal band formed in 2023, adding to Southern California's thriving extreme metal underground with punishing low-end heaviness and unrelenting aggression.
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