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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Georgia grindcore act Colacon specialize in short, chaotic detonations of noise and speed, delivering relentless blasting punishment with zero intent of letting up.
Colapso was a grindcore and crossover band from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, active from 2004 until splitting up around 2007. The band recorded their first demo "É o Fim" ("It's the End") in 2005 with eleven tracks, and later released a split with fellow Recife act Corroídos pelo Ódio in late 2006 that gained wider circulation across Brazil. The group disbanded after members departed to pursue other musical projects.
Denver's Collapse drags grindcore's blunt-force brevity into death metal territory, a high-velocity collision of blast beats and down-tuned riffs that leaves little room for subtlety or breath.
Houston's Collapsed Mainframe is a genre-agnostic extremity project drawing from black metal, death metal, doom, and grindcore simultaneously — a chaotic, sprawling sound that fits neatly into Houston's notoriously eclectic underground.
Tampa's Collapsor combines the grind of grindcore with the snapping aggression of crossover thrash, keeping songs short, loud, and relentless — standard operating procedure for the fertile Tampa extreme scene.
New York's Collapstomy brews a particularly unpleasant combination of grindcore, death metal, and sludge — ugly by design, the kind of band that seems to take genuine pleasure in musical discomfort.
Crossover thrash and grindcore act from the Limburg villages of Horst and Lottum, active since 2014. Collision delivers ferocious, high-speed extremity from the Dutch countryside.
Death-grind act from Viterbo, formed in 2020. Collo delivers concise, blast-driven extremity from the Lazio underground.
Colt.45 is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Their 2016 album "Extinction", released through Terceiro Mundo Chaos Discos, drew attention in the underground extreme metal scene for its technically demanding riffs, blastbeat-driven drumming, and vocals ranging from shrieking highs to guttural lows across twelve relentless tracks.
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