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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Kansas City death metal act whose 2019 debut The Hand That Once Was delivers surprisingly thoughtful extremity beneath the shock-value moniker. A product of the Midwest underground where crude names and serious musicianship coexist without contradiction.
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Charlotte, North Carolina grindcore project. Queen City aggression stripped of all pretense.
Anality delivers grindcore and death metal from Belgrade since 2007. Their deliberately crude name matches nearly two decades of no-holds-barred extremity from the Serbian capital.
A fresh arrival on Barcelona's extreme metal scene in 2024, Analophobia fuses death metal's heaviness with grindcore's breakneck velocity. The Catalan duo channels their influences into short, sharp bursts of sonic devastation.
Anartria was a death metal and grindcore band from Palhoça, Santa Catarina, Brazil, part of the underground extreme metal scene of the state's southern coast. The band blended the punishing brevity of grindcore with death metal heaviness, operating as an independent act before splitting up.
Anastomose is a death metal and grindcore band from Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2020. Working in the tradition of Brazilian extreme metal, the band fuses the blunt force of grindcore with death metal brutality, operating as an independent act out of the São Paulo interior scene.
Anatoma creates death metal and grindcore from Poznań since 2003. Named after the study of bodily structure, they have spent over two decades dissecting extreme music from western Poland's cultural center.
Savage Melodic / Progressive Death Metal / Grindcore from Brownsville.
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