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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Criminal Element merge death metal's morbid brutality with grindcore's political ferocity from within the Washington D.C. underground. Their sound reflects the confrontational energy of the capital city's extreme music scene.
Syracuse, New York's Criminally Insane combine the gore and brutality of death metal with grindcore's explosive intensity in the tradition of upstate New York's extreme underground. Their music is fast, ugly, and uncompromising.
Legendary Italian grindcore act from Asti, Piedmont, with Bandcamp activity since 2012 but a history stretching back to the early 1990s. Cripple Bastards are one of Italy's most influential and prolific extreme acts.
Death-grind act from Bari in Puglia, formed in 2017. Crisis Benoit blasts through grinding death metal from southern Italy's Adriatic coast.
Crust punk, death metal, and grindcore band from Santander in Cantabria, Spain, active since 2011. They fuse the raw fury of crust with grinding death metal extremity.
Grind-thrash act from Stella Santa Giustina in Savona province, Liguria, formed in 2019. Critical Condition fuses grindcore intensity with thrash metal riffing from the Ligurian hills.
Death metal and grindcore band from Sumperk, Czech Republic, active since 2004. With over two decades of grinding intensity, they deliver chaotic extremity from the northern Moravian mountains.
Los Angeles-based Crom cast an unusually wide net across doom, sludge, grind, power, and thrash, resulting in a chaotic and unpredictable strain of heavy music from the SoCal underground.
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