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Featured Album
"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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Death-grind act from Moscow, formed in 2018. Constrained Ferocity delivers blast-driven extremity from the Russian capital.
Death metal and grindcore band from Potsdam, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver chaotic extremity from the Brandenburg capital near Berlin.
Dallas's Construction Sports are a genre-bending experiment in extremity, hurling death metal, grindcore, sludge, and power metal into chaotic collision in one of Texas's most unpredictable and adventurous heavy acts.
Allen, Texas death/grind act that fuses brutal death metal heaviness with the manic speed of grindcore. Compact, relentless songs built on blast beats and churning low-end aggression.
Tulsa, Oklahoma brutal death/grind band cranking out short, savage blasts of gore-drenched extremity. Their music careens between death metal heaviness and grindcore speed with no regard for restraint.
Swedish death metal and grindcore act active since 2014, delivering rapid-fire extremity through a fusion of both genres. Their grinding assault combines death metal's weight with grindcore's relentless velocity.
Weymouth, Massachusetts grind/sludge band colliding the explosive speed of grindcore with the oppressive, tar-thick weight of sludge metal. The collision of those two extremes results in a sound that is both manic and suffocating.
Experimental grindcore and death metal act from Most, Czech Republic, active since 1995. Across seven releases from Necrostories through 2020's Mamun, Contrastic blend forward-thinking grind with melodies, electronica, and jazz influences for a uniquely catchy and chaotic sound.
Crust punk and grindcore band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2011. They deliver raw, politically charged extremity at the intersection of hardcore punk's fury and grindcore's velocity.
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