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Denver grindcore act Heathen Burial formed in 2017 and have since delivered short, violent blasts of controlled chaos that exemplify the genre's contempt for excess. They're a reliable fixture in Colorado's extreme underground, fast and pitiless by design.
Cincinnati's Heathen Knight throw thrash, death metal, and grindcore into a single chaotic vessel and let the collision speak for itself. Since 2016, the Ohio act has favored brutish efficiency over nuance, making them one of the Midwest's more reliably ferocious crossover outfits.
Heavy Merda is a thrash metal/crossover, grindcore act from Italy, active since 2025 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
Death metal/grindcore band from Brunswick, Germany, active since 2015. Their relentless blast of brutality and grind delivers extreme music from the Lion City of Lower Saxony.
Operating from Szczecin, this death metal/grindcore project has been shaping grim sound since 2018. Cavernous production and rhythmic complexity define their death metal approach.
German extreme metal project formed in 2025, evolving through multiple stylistic phases from noisecore through black/death metal and grindcore. Their restless genre-hopping reflects an uncompromising, boundary-defying approach to extreme music.
Helvetes Jävla Skit is a grindcore/death metal band from Lund, Sweden, active since 2020 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Hematogen is a grindcore/brutal death metal band from Yelizovo, Russia, active since 2018 and dealing in the most extreme and guttural forms of death metal. The project channels punishing brutality with unrelenting intensity.
Formed in Mentor, Ohio in 1993, Hemdale were a grind-gore band whose abrasive extremity and relentless live performances earned them a significant underground following before a 1997 split. The band's 1996 split release with Exhumed, In the Name of Gore, remains a key document of the era, and their network extended through drummer Craig Rowe's Visceral Productions, which played a role in the early careers of Nile, Exhumed, and Dying Fetus. Hemdale reformed in 2013 with vocalist and guitarist Matthew Rositano as the sole original member.
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