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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Grindcore and hardcore band from the Kempische Heuvelrug region of Belgium, formed in 2022, self-described as 'gorepunk.' Their releases 'Gourmet Meats & Anal Treats' and 'Pate d'Amour' deliver gleefully grotesque grindcore with punk attitude.
Dayton's Cheap Gas smashes black metal, crust punk, and grindcore into a filthy, high-speed collision that prioritizes ferocity and brevity above all else. Their sound is as blunt and unrefined as the industrial Midwestern city they come from.
Omaha's Cheap Porno Flick blends death metal's brutality with grindcore's blastbeat economy and black humor, producing short, savage tracks in the tradition of American gore-grind. Their output is deliberately provocative and proudly low-brow.
Death metal and grindcore band from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver irreverent, chaotic extremity with a playful edge from the former West German capital.
Los Angeles grindcore act Chelios delivers relentless blasts of politically charged noise with no regard for subtlety. Short, brutal tracks define their approach to the genre's most uncompromising traditions.
Everett, Washington's Chemical Castration attacks from multiple extreme metal angles, blending black metal atmosphere, death metal brutality, and grindcore's manic speed. The band operates in the chaotic space where these genres collide.
Grindcore band from Plymouth, England, formed in 2021. They deliver chaotic grinding fury from the Devon coast.
Chepang formed in Queens, New York in 2016, founded by Nepalese immigrants who self-designated their music as 'immigrindcore,' combining powerviolence, grindcore, crust punk, and noise rock with Nepalese-language lyrics addressing class inequality and political resistance. The band's unconventional lineup includes two drummers and two vocalists, producing a chaotic and physically overwhelming sound. They signed to Relapse Records and released Jhyappa in 2025, continuing a discography that includes Chatta (2020) and Swatta (2023).
Black-grind project from Poland, formed in 2021. Chesslay fuses raw black metal with grinding blasts.
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