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A product of Poland's titan-grade death metal scene, this death metal and grindcore act channels punk-speed chaos meeting death metal's sonic extremity. Active since 2018, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
El Cajon's Enthrallment has been fusing death metal and hardcore since 1999, channeling the San Diego underground's pit-ready intensity into a hybrid that hits with the pummeling directness of both genres and the compromise of neither.
Streetsboro, Ohio's Entity of Extinction weaponizes technical death metal and grindcore together, pushing both toward their logical extremes — the precision of the former sharpened by the speed and fury of the latter. Active since 2014 and unrelenting throughout.
Grindcore and death metal act from the Baltic port city of Rostock, Germany, delivering chaotic blasts of extreme noise since 2004. Their two-decade career of visceral, grinding extremity makes them a veteran force in northeastern Germany's underground.
Grindcore and crust band from Segovia, Spain active for over 20 years, featuring dual vocalists and a three-piece instrumental lineup. Their politically charged output addresses colonialism, imperialism, and environmental destruction across splits and EPs.
Enucleacion is a death/grind band from Santiago, Chile, operating in the city's underground extreme metal scene. Their debut Demo 2020 was released in December 2020 through Santiago-based underground label Burning Coffin Recs, pressed to a limited run of 100 cassettes with distribution split between Chile and the United States. The label described their sound as a "rotten and chaotic" death/grind assault.
Underground to the core, this grindcore act from Lysychansk traffics in microsecond-length blasts of noise and fury. Since 2019, they've built a catalog that reflects Ukraine's fierce and unyielding metal community.
Proof that the underground never sleeps, this grindcore act from Bridgwater traffics in microsecond-length blasts of noise and fury. Since 2023, they've built a catalog that reflects the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition.
When Erde emerged in 2017 from Warsaw, they brought with them a sound rooted in grindcore and sludge metal — all Southern-fried heaviness with hardcore punk's confrontational energy. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
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