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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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Death metal and grindcore band from Seinajoki, Finland, formed in 2015. They deliver a fierce blend of death metal brutality and grindcore velocity from the Ostrobothnian plains.
Hinesville, Georgia grinders fusing the blunt trauma of death metal with the velocity and aggression of grindcore since 2012, built on relentless speed and concise, punishing song structures.
Technical death metal and grindcore act from Kristiansand, southern Norway, active since 2012. Carnassial — named after the shearing teeth of predators — delivers precise, technically demanding extremity.
Brutal death-grindcore band from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, formed in 2015. They deliver punishing extremity from Northern Ireland.
Death-grind act from Quartu Sant'Elena near Cagliari, Sardinia, formed in 2019. Carne Guasta — Italian for 'rotten meat' — delivers grinding extremity from the Mediterranean island.
A Massachusetts brutal death and grindcore act born in 2025, trading in the kind of visceral, compressed extremity that sits at the genre's most punishing outer edge.
Carnicero is a death metal/grindcore band from Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil, catalogued on Encyclopaedia Metallum as a split-up act. The band's lyrical themes encompassed horror, subconscious depravity, death, and atheism, situating them in the tradition of São Paulo's extreme underground scene.
Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Spain, formed in 2019. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity through a blend of brutal death and grinding chaos.
Santa Maria brutal death and grindcore act formed in 2021, delivering chaotic, speed-driven extremity that blurs the line between the two genres with short, savage, and unrelenting compositions.
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