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Proof (2024)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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A fresh death-grind project out of Middletown, Delaware, Farm Machinery emerged in 2025 with the blunt, industrial violence the name implies. Their sound grinds genre boundaries down to raw material — equal parts gore-flecked death metal and punishing grindcore.
Cleveland's Fascist Insect have been waging sonic war since 2008, fusing the raw political fury of grindcore with the slow-burn punishment of doom and the street-level aggression of crossover. The combination sounds exactly as volatile as it should.
Fascistectomy is a grindcore band from Torelló, Spain, formed in 2019. The band delivers politically charged grindcore from the Catalan town in the Ter valley.
Fat Actress is a grindcore/death metal band from Cork, Ireland, active since 2011 and delivering rapid-fire extremity from the Rebel City. The project channels grindcore's velocity through an Irish lens.
Fat Ex is a death metal/goregrind project from Jawor in Lower Silesia, Poland, formed in 2023. They deliver the visceral extremity and dark humor characteristic of goregrind from a small town in southwestern Poland.
Fatal is a thrash/death metal/grindcore band from Le Havre, France, formed in 2024. The band fuses thrash, death metal, and grindcore from the Normandy port city.
Fatal Fajitas is a death metal/grindcore band from Reims, France, formed in 2019. The band delivers extreme grind from the Champagne capital.
Fatal Ferocity is a grindcore/death metal band from Severodvinsk on the White Sea coast of northern Russia, formed in 2016. They channel extreme metal from one of Russia's most isolated and Arctic-influenced cities.
Father Bluebeard is a goregrind/death metal band from Budapest, Hungary, named after the folklore character, delivering grotesque extremity since 2016. The project traffics in the most visceral corners of the Hungarian grind scene.
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