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Death metal/grindcore band from Biscay, Spain, formed in 2024. Their ferocious blast of brutality and grind erupts from the Basque Country's Atlantic coast.
Bred in Bratislava's underground, this act delivers brutal death metal/grindcore since 2015. Their sound channels the genre's most crushing impulses through thunderous riffs.
Henry Kane is a crust punk/death metal/grindcore band from Sundsvall, Sweden, active since 2017 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Burlington, Vermont's Heralds of Galaktus bring cosmic-scale destruction down to a very terrestrial grindcore and death metal assault since 2018, naming themselves after a Marvel titan of annihilation while sounding like they could cause some themselves. Short, sharp, and obliterating.
Herege is a death metal/grindcore band from Iúna, Espírito Santo, Brazil, formed in 2016. Their debut album Terra Morta, released in 2016 through Cemitério Records and Cold Art Industry, packs 18 tracks of aggressive grind drawing on influences like Napalm Death, Terrorizer, and Autopsy. The band features Davi Ambrósio on bass and vocals, Everton Oliveira on guitar and vocals, and Juliano Freitas on drums.
Herida Profunda is a grindcore act from Poland, active since 2013 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
San Francisco's Herpes lean into D-beat and goregrind with the kind of self-aware punk nihilism that the Bay Area's underground has always nurtured since their 2010 formation. The name tells you everything about their attitude toward conventional good taste.
Michigan's Hideous CHUD take the foundational elements of brutal death and grindcore and run them through an experimental blender, producing results that are as unpredictable as they are punishing. The Roseville outfit seem genuinely uninterested in doing what's expected of them.
Hideous Crawling Abomination is a goregrind act from Northampton, United Kingdom, 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.
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