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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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Imbecile is a grindcore/death metal band from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2021, delivering explosive bursts of extreme aggression from the shores of the Baltic Sea. The band channels grindcore's brevity and ferocity with a death metal foundation.
Immured is a death metal/crust-grindcore band from Nuremberg, Germany, active since 2005, delivering two decades of ferocious extremity that merges death metal's guttural brutality with crust punk and grindcore's raw velocity. The band channels Franconia's underground energy into relentless bursts of sonic violence.
Oakland's Impaled have spent nearly two decades sharpening a death metal and grindcore sound with surgical humor and genuine brutality — one of the Bay Area's most reliably visceral underground acts.
Impending Mindfuck is a brutal death metal/grindcore band from Kassel, Germany, formed in 2022, delivering maximum sonic extremity through short, devastating compositions. The band channels the intersection of brutality and speed from the heart of northern Hesse.
Implore is a blackened death metal/grindcore/crust band operating between Hamburg, southern Germany, and Linz, Austria, active since 2014, with a discography spanning from Depopulation through The Burden of Existence and A Decade In The Shadow. The band merges the filth of crust punk with blackened death-grind intensity, including a split release with American powerviolence act ACxDC.
Grindcore/death metal band from Leeds in West Yorkshire, active since 2015. Their sound fuses grindcore chaos with death metal from the northern English city.
Long-running Houston satanic death metal institution. Still active with recent releases on Dark Descent Records.
Impugned is a grindcore project from Argentina helmed by Nicolas Grind, with international collaborators contributing guitars and bass. The band appeared on the 2021 four-way split "State of World Deception" alongside Irradiated (USA), Scumeater (Poland), and Meatus (Canada), released through Pornographic Gore Records and Grabaxiones Inframundo.
In Some Dismals is a death metal/grindcore band from Kirov, Russia, active since 2011 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
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