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Tower of Torsos (2023)
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Onward (2020)
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Carnivorous Myocardium Engorgement (2021)
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A death metal and grindcore band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cadaveric Spasm has been grinding since 2009, channeling the collision of DM brutality and grind's spastic, short-form aggression.
Philadelphia death metal band formed in 2024 and signed to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, blending 80s Teutonic thrash with 90s deathgrind across their debut EP Wretched Decrepitude.
Philadelphia doom/death metal band that emerged from the ashes of sludge act Black Urn in 2018, releasing the 2023 full-length From Roving About the Earth.
A short-lived Philadelphia death/doom project, Call of Pripyat channeled sorrow, bleakness, and apocalyptic dread into crushing compositions before splitting up in 2022.
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band taking their name from the 1980 horror film and operating in the extreme underground.
Philadelphia's Castle Freak lean into the noise and chaos of grindcore while keeping one foot in death metal's structural sensibility, delivering brief, violent bursts of grinding extremity.
Philadelphia's Cavern Womb deal in suffocating, cavernous death metal that prioritizes density and darkness over speed, sitting in the tradition of Incantation-influenced death metal as an exercise in claustrophobia.
Reading, Pennsylvania's Cavum pursue straightforward, grimly melodic black metal drawing on the European second-wave tradition — tremolo-driven riffs, blasting drums, and vocals smeared in reverb.
Cemetery Earth is a death metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, rooted in the old-school tradition with thick riffs, deliberate pacing, and a production aesthetic that recalls the murk of early 1990s American death metal.
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