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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Ivano-Frankivsk-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2021, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
Death-grind act from King's Lynn, formed in 2024. Their approach strips away anything that does not serve the cause of sheer aggression, delivering sub-two-minute salvos of blast beats and guttural fury.
Death-grind act from Caxarias, formed in 2011. Their approach strips away anything that does not serve the cause of sheer aggression, delivering sub-two-minute salvos of blast beats and guttural fury.
Norwegian goregrind outfit active since 2018, reveling in pitchshifted gurgles, blast beats, and medically-themed depravity. Their short, violent compositions waste no time on niceties, delivering maximum grotesquery in minimum time.
Punishing brutal death metal from Bishop Burton, formed in 1997. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Brutal Masturbation is a death metal and grindcore band from the Patagonian city of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina, active since 2017. The band released the Aborto EP, delivering short blasts of death-grind in the tradition of South America's extreme underground.
Macomer (Nuoro)-based death metal/grindcore outfit active since 2016, blasting through short, ferocious compositions that marry death metal's low-end churn with grindcore's frenetic speed. Their music operates at maximum intensity with minimal patience for subtlety.
Brutal Noise is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Córdoba, Argentina, tracing their roots to 1993 when five musicians began playing thrash and hardcore under the name Año Negro before renaming themselves Brutal Noise in 1995. Over a career spanning more than two decades, they have released albums including Impending Rot (2000), Ripped in Half (2007), and The Worst Is Yet to Come (2016), cementing their place in Argentina's extreme metal underground.
Punishing brutal death metal from Torres Novas, formed in 2008. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
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