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Disuse plays grindcore from the university city of Leiden, active since 2018 and delivering microsecond bursts of extreme violence. Their name's suggestion of abandonment and decay carries into music that aggressively rejects conventional song structure.
Ditchcreeper is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Southampton, England, formed in 2015. The band deliver relentless, punishing extremity at the intersection of grinding blast beats and brutal death metal low-end.
Reading, Pennsylvania's Divination launched in 2021 dragging brutal death metal into grindcore's pummeling velocity, a combination that makes for some of the most relentlessly aggressive music in the Mid-Atlantic underground. Short songs, inhuman tempos, and the full-throttle commitment to extremity that both subgenres demand at their best.
Savage Doom / Death Metal with Grindcore influences from Plano.
Diving Station is a grindcore and death metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2017. The band deliver extreme, relentless blasts of grindcore fused with death metal heaviness.
DJ-Onko plays grindcore from Rotterdam, formed in 2021 and wrapping the genre's extreme aggression in an unlikely DJ persona. Their irreverent name subverts grindcore's typically grim aesthetic with a touch of Dutch humor.
Document 6 is a death metal/grindcore band from Aachen, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver relentless grind and death metal extremity.
Dogma Inc. is a grindcore and thrash metal band from Sala, Slovakia, formed in 2017. The project merges grinding extremity with thrash velocity.
Dolkhemmet is a death metal and grindcore band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1994. One of the veteran grinding death metal acts from the west coast.
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