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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Death metal and grindcore act from Germany, delivering chaotic blasts of extreme sonic violence since 2020. Their approach fuses the guttural heaviness of death metal with grindcore's breakneck speed and brevity.
Death metal and grindcore veterans from Hamburg, Germany, with roots stretching back to 1992, making them one of the city's longest-running extreme metal acts. Their three-decade career represents an enduring commitment to the most aggressive forms of heavy music from Germany's northern port city.
Black/death metal and grindcore act from Munster, Germany, delivering venomous, three-genre extremity since 2015. Their name, meaning "pus" in German, captures the toxic, infectious quality of their sonic assault.
Dayton, Ohio's Ejaculating Rektal Squid Pussy commits fully to the brutality of goregrind and brutal death metal, a project formed in 2022 with no pretense toward subtlety. Cavernous gurgles, blast beats, and maximum grotesquerie.
Sludge metal and grindcore hybrid from the university city of Jena in Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2022. Named after the Soviet ground-effect vehicle, their sound is as heavy and unconventional as their namesake.
Goregrind band from Russia active since 2018, channeling the genre's trademark ultraviolent absurdity and lo-fi extremity. Their sound pushes grindcore into the most grotesque sonic territory.
Grindcore, crust, and death metal hybrid from Valencia, Spain, delivering chaotic, politically charged extremity since 2014. Their name, Spanish for "The Hunger," captures the desperate, consuming aggression of their genre-blending assault.
Doom metal, grindcore, and noise hybrid from Viladecans near Barcelona, with roots stretching back to 1995. Their three-decade career of genre-defying extremity makes them one of Catalonia's most enduring underground acts.
El Santo Asesino is a death metal and grindcore project from São Paulo, Brazil, founded in late 2013 by guitarist and vocalist Danilo Gonzalez as a one-man band. The project blends extreme metal with industrial and electronic elements, drawing on influences including Nailbomb, Brujeria, and Napalm Death, and released the demo O Inimigo do Meu Inimigo as its debut.
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