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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Grindcore act from Culemborg, formed in 2001. Their music exists in a state of perpetual detonation, packing blast beats and screamed vocals into compositions that rarely exceed the two-minute mark.
Philadelphia power-violence and grindcore trio who describe their music as Eternal Microbursts of Electric Power, releasing a string of EPs and split 7-inches including records with Nimbus Terrifix and Chainsaw to the Face alongside albums such as Primordial Paranoia and Psychic Rot.
Spanish grindcore band from Badalona near Barcelona, formed in 2013. They deliver short, punishing blasts of grindcore from the Catalan coast.
Los Angeles crossover/thrash and grindcore band formed in 1989 by Keith Aazami and Dirk Rogers, maintaining a relentless output across three-plus decades that includes Lynch the Weirdo (2004), Worship of Fear (2015), Taught to Fear (2022), and Decency Anomaly (2025).
Albuquerque death metal, grindcore, and powerviolence band formed in 2020, named after the HTTP 502 error code and releasing brutal short-form material from the New Mexico underground.
Bad Resilience is a grindcore and noisecore project from São Paulo, Brazil, founded in mid-2024 by musician Rodrigo Chenta. The project fuses diminutive riffs with raw blast-beat grind, drawing lyrical themes from Christian theology — including kenosis, ordinances, and martyrdom — with lyrics in both English and Spanish. Their debut album Mutilated Head (2024) arrived alongside the single Stoning, establishing a deliberately brutal and theologically charged identity.
Badtrip Surfdeath is an instrumental power trio from São Paulo, Brazil, active since 2008 and coined the term 'surfdeath' to describe their collision of hardcore, grind blasts, black metal riffs, and psychedelic textures. The trio of Rodrigo Chã (guitar), Manéu Junqueira (bass), and Marcus Dentão (drums) released their self-titled debut in 2011 followed by Badtrip Surfdeath II in 2013, both recorded in São Paulo. Their entirely wordless approach lets the genre-blurring density of the music speak for itself.
Baixo Calão is a grindcore band from Belém, Pará, operating out of the Amazon region and representing one of the more distinctive voices in Brazil's northern underground extreme metal scene. Their sound is rooted in old-school grindcore — relentless blasts, caustic riffs — with lyrical themes targeting anti-religion, social decay, and political corruption. The band gained notable exposure through the European underground circuit, including a performance at the Obscene Extreme Festival in the Czech Republic.
French brutal death metal and grindcore band from Saint-Omer in Pas-de-Calais, formed in 2017. They deliver terrifying blasts of brutal death-grind from the far north of France.
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