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Lexington, Kentucky's Deanimator grind together death metal, thrash, and grindcore with economical brutality and no interest in genre purity since 2013. Short, fast, and built to destroy.
Denver's Death of Self grind with relentless hostility, compressing maximum chaos into minimum runtime in the true grindcore tradition. Since 2016, they've been one of Colorado's most ferocious blasts of controlled noise.
Death On/Off is a death metal and grindcore band from Ferrara, Italy, formed in 2012. With releases like 'Disharmonic Mass Destruction' and splits with Grumo, the band delivers raw and provocative extreme metal that fuses death metal, grindcore, and hardcore punk.
Death Slam is a veteran grindcore and death metal band from Taguatinga, near Brasília, Brazil, active since the early 1990s and one of the longest-running extreme acts from the country's capital region. The band has released albums including "Smash the Power" (1998) and "Brazilian Disaster" (2004) and engages with political themes throughout their discography, with members including vocalist Fellipe CDC, guitarist Adélcio, bassist/vocalist Itazil, and drummer Ademir.
Deathbound is a death metal/grindcore band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2008. They deliver relentless extremity from Finland's industrial heartland.
Deathcontrol is a grindcore band from A Coruña, Spain, formed in 2024. They unleash controlled chaos through blistering grindcore from Galicia.
DeathFuckingWound is a black metal/grindcore/crust punk band from Finland, emerging in 2025. Their blunt name matches their savage fusion of extreme subgenres.
San José's Deathgrave lock death metal and grindcore into a single suffocating blast, prioritizing speed and ugliness over any sense of comfort or resolution. They've been running at maximum velocity since 2014.
Deathmongers is an Amsterdam death metal and grindcore act formed in 2023, peddling sonic destruction from the Dutch capital. Their name's mercantile imagery — dealing in death — fits a city historically defined by commerce, now channeling that energy into extreme metal.
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