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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Gatling is a death metal and grindcore band from Heusenstamm, Germany, formed in 2010, delivering relentless extreme metal from the Frankfurt metropolitan area. The band combines death metal's heaviness with grindcore's tempo and ferocity.
Gattus Malugalum is a grindcore band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2025, self-described as 'grooving grindcore,' blending extreme metal's ferocity with rhythmic, headbanging grooves. Their 2025 debut Reborn in Disgust delivers eleven tracks spanning titles like Black Grind, Holy Lobotomy, and Ghost in the Blood.
Springfield, Missouri's Gauntlet are a genuinely difficult band to pin down — their sound pulls from sludge, powerviolence, hardcore, and power metal simultaneously, creating something chaotic and genre-agnostic. Formed in 2022, they're proof that genre labels sometimes just get in the way.
Uzhhorod death metal and grindcore act active since 2009, named after a Soviet military truck and delivering grinding extremity from Ukraine's far western border region. Their relentless sonic assault combines death metal brutality with grindcore velocity.
Death metal and grindcore act from Banska Bystrica in central Slovakia, active since 2015 and delivering grinding extremity. Their rapid-fire assault combines the brutality of death metal with grindcore's relentless velocity.
Gemist is a grindcore band from Varazdin in northern Croatia, formed in 2016. They deliver short, violent blasts of grindcore from the baroque city near the Hungarian border.
General Surgery is a death metal and goregrind band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2011 and dealing in the most extreme forms of grinding death metal from the Swedish capital. The project channels the legacy of Swedish extreme metal.
San Diego's Genestealer lift their name from Warhammer 40,000 lore and channel that pulpy, sci-fi menace into short, violent grindcore songs since 2019. Fast, brutal, and over before you can process what happened.
Crushing Grindcore / Death Metal out of Texas.
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