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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.
Grindcore outfit from Hasselt, Belgium, delivering blistering, chaotic blasts of noise and aggression since 2017. Their provocatively named project channels the genre's tradition of shock and aural violence from the heart of Belgian Limburg.
Santa Ana goregrind unit with a name designed to offend and music built to match — blasting, absurdist, and utterly indifferent to good taste in the grand tradition of West Coast goregrind.
California's Erizo — Spanish for hedgehog — is anything but soft, weaponizing experimental grindcore and death metal into unpredictable, spiny sonic assaults that defy easy categorization. Active since 2008, the project treats genre as raw material to be shredded and reconfigured rather than adhered to.
Borrowing their name from a campy horror film, Corona, California's Ernest Scared Stupid plays it anything but light, delivering caustic death metal and grindcore laced with punk fury. Two decades of activity since 2003 have honed their approach into fast, filthy, and ferocious releases.
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