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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)
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Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from Dallas.
Dallas's Embalmed blend the bruising swing of death metal with grindcore's frenetic tempo lurches, a combination they've been perfecting since 1991. A genuine pillar of the Texas extreme underground, the band plays like it has nothing left to lose.
Swiss goregrind and death metal institution active since 2003, delivering nauseating blasts of extreme noise with theatrical, horror-tinged imagery. Their long-running tenure makes them one of Switzerland's most established acts in the goregrind genre.
Easton, Pennsylvania's Embryo Evisceration bring goregrind's splatter aesthetic into collision with brutal death metal's compositional heaviness, producing something reliably disgusting. Since 2014, they've served the region's appetite for extreme extremity without compromise.
California's Central Coast town of Atascadero is an unlikely birthplace for a death-grind outfit, but Emetic have been operating there since 2012, delivering short, savage blasts of noise that owe as much to grindcore's hardcore roots as to death metal's brutality.
Chicago's Empty Grave have been thrashing the crossover circuit since 2016, turning the city's hardcore aggression loose on a hard-charging riff machine that owes equal debts to D.R.I. and early Metallica.
Death metal and grindcore band from Iisalmi in eastern Finland, formed in 2023. They blast punishing extremity from the Savo region.
Out of California's high-desert community of Yucca Valley, Emulsified Flesh have been splicing grindcore's manic velocity to death metal's rotting heaviness since 2012.
Death/thrash metal and grindcore hybrid from Torrelavega in Cantabria, Spain, delivering chaotic three-genre extremity since 2003. Their two-decade career of genre-blending aggression makes them a veteran force in the Spanish underground.
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