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Espermorragia was a goregrind and brutal death metal band from Villa Amelia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose lineup included guitarist Mario Vil, drummer Kanamith, and vocalist Seba Grinder. The band released their "Culto Grotesco" EP in 2014, recorded at Villa Amelia Grinder Home Studios, and followed it with a 2015 split release alongside Brazilian band Disformes titled "Sangue Correndo... / Culto Grotesco", issued through Zombie Records.
Extração Craniana are a goregrind band from Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, founded in 2010 by guitarist Matheus Mattos and bassist/vocalist Gabriel Zamian, with drummer Alyson Matheus completing the lineup in 2012. The band released their debut full-length Mutilação Extrema in November 2012, channeling surgical gore aesthetics as a vehicle for anti-religious and anti-moralistic themes. They have been on hold since around 2012 but maintain an active Bandcamp archive.
Exutory are a goregrind band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, formed in 2025, comprising members Leonardo Silva, João Malta, and Leonardo Coelho Soares. The band released Fields of Mutilation as their debut, supported by labels including Deathdawn Productions, Godless Records, and Underground Pollution Records. Despite their very recent formation, they have already established ties with the international goregrind underground network.
Festering Explosion is a one-man goregrind project from São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, operated by Sérgio Sanches Parra. The project has released multiple recordings including the 15-track album Incisions in Rot (2021), the EP Diagnosis of Bodily Collapse (2021), and the album Where the Dead Don't Rest (2020), all rooted in old-school goregrind and death metal aesthetics.
Freak Maniacs are a goregrind trio from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2022, consisting of Thales Gory on guitars and vocals, Igor Dead on bass and growls, and Huevo on drums. The band released their debut album "Various Stages Of The Murder Process" in January 2022, recorded at Sotão Estúdio in the Pirituba district of São Paulo and mixed and mastered by Simon Nicolas of Vergoten Records. Their sound blends gore-obsessed lyrical themes with sludge-inflected grind brutality.
Formed in Lille, France in 1998, Gronibard play a gleefully offensive strain of goregrind delivered with studied irreverence, playing Maryland Death Fest in 2005 and touring Europe extensively in their early years. Their self-titled debut LP, released on Bones Brigade Records in 2001, established the band's taste for maximum volume and minimum propriety, followed by We Are French Fukk You before a fourteen-year recording gap ended with Regarde Les Hommes Sucer in 2022. The band operates under a rotating cast of deliberately cartoonish pseudonyms.
Gurglerot is a one-man goregrind project from Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, founded in 2020 by musician Adrian. The project draws on gore and horror film themes, with the 2024 EP Slashergrind being its most recent release.
Harmony Fault is a goregrind and brutal death metal band from Lajeado, Brazil, active since 2002 and dedicated to splatter-themed extreme music. The band released their debut demo Pedaços de Carne Podre in 2002, followed by the full-length Rotting Flesh Good Meal in 2011 and Savage Horror Dementia in 2014, the latter recorded at Beto Estudio in Lajeado. Their 2024 release Gore Beyond Blood, issued through Old Grindered Days Records, featured the lineup of Calebe, Guilherme, Pulga, and Monteiro.
HumanMeatGrinder was a one-man goregrind and crossover project from Barretos, São Paulo, formed in 2021 by Rafael Douglas. The project blended death metal and grindcore with politically and socially charged Portuguese-language lyrics, debuting with the EP Matadouro (December 2021), recorded at home with limited resources. A second release, Instrumento, followed before the project dissolved.
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