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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Fleischwald is a grindcore band from Bolzano in South Tyrol, formed in 2022. Their German-language name and Tyrolean roots place them in the German-speaking alpine extreme music tradition, delivering short, violent bursts of grindcore aggression.
San Antonio brutal death metal/grindcore. Relentlessly heavy and fast.
Flesh Prison is a black metal/grindcore band from Tredegar, Wales, formed in 2015. The band merges black metal's darkness with grindcore's explosive intensity from the South Wales valleys.
Flesh Torment is a death metal/grindcore band from Elverum in the Innlandet region of Norway, formed in 2010. They deliver punishing extremity from the same eastern Norwegian city that produced Burzum, though their approach leans toward death metal and grindcore rather than black metal.
Fleshart is a brutal death metal and grindcore act from Piraeus, Greece, active since 2020 and delivering punishing extremity from the port city near Athens. The project fuses brutal death metal's low-end assault with grindcore's velocity.
Fleshless is a death metal and grindcore band from Děčín, Czech Republic, active since the early 2000s and regarded as grind legends in the Czech scene. Their release "Hate Is Born" (2008) showcases their intense, aggressive style, and they maintain an active touring schedule across Europe.
Fleshmangler is a grindcore act from Alexandroupoli in northeastern Greece near the Turkish border, active since 2019. The project delivers grinding extremity from one of Greece's most remote metal outposts.
Fleshripper is a brutal death metal/grindcore band from the Giessen/Wetzlar area of Germany, formed in 2024. The band combines the extremity of brutal death metal with grindcore's short, violent bursts.
Floridian Hippies is a death metal/grindcore band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2022. Despite the sunshine-evoking name, the band delivers extreme grind and death metal from the Finnish interior.
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