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Grindcore act from Valencia, Spain formed in 2010, featuring members of Overnoise and other local bands. Their releases include the 2021 album Satan 1 Dios 0, delivering aggressive grindcore in the vein of Rotten Sound, Brutal Truth, and Napalm Death.
On the warpath since 2015, this Stockholm Crust Punk, Death Metal, and Grindcore outfit delivers microsecond-length blasts of noise and fury. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Brutal death metal and grindcore project from Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, driven by Killer on guitars, bass, and programmed drums with vocalist Sata. Members have ties to Infecto Cadaver, Silent Grinders, and Moriae Encomium.
Los Angeles grindcore veterans who have been grinding since 1989, making them one of Southern California's earliest practitioners of the form. Decades of output and lineup changes have done nothing to blunt their commitment to maximum brevity and maximum violence.
Rhode Island death/grind act from Charlestown, formed in 2022 with a clear intent to push both genres toward their most punishing extremes. Short songs, relentless blasting, and a riff vocabulary drawn from the ugliest corners of both traditions.
Part of Poland's relentlessly productive underground, this act channels death metal and grindcore with a focus on microsecond-length blasts of noise and fury. Formed in 2010, based in Chodzież, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
Death metal and grindcore act from Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, freshly formed in 2025 with a machine-like approach to extreme metal. Their name evokes the relentless, mechanical aggression that drives their blend of death metal and grindcore.
Enemy Soil were a grindcore band from Sterling, Virginia, formed in 1991 by Richard Johnson, later known for Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Drugs of Faith. The band fused the sonic violence of grindcore with the political and social urgency of the Washington D.C. hardcore tradition, and their compilation Casualties of Progress was ranked fifth on Terrorizer Magazine's list of 20 essential U.S. grindcore releases in 2009. Notable members at various points included J.R. Hayes (Pig Destroyer) on vocals; the band was active until 1999, with reunion shows in 2001 and 2018.
Named for a Pacific atoll obliterated by nuclear testing, Orange, California's Enewetak arrived in 2020 with grindcore intensity fused to metalcore structure — short, violent, and purposefully destructive. Their music moves at the speed of a chain reaction, leaving very little standing.
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