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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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Thrash metal/grindcore band from Epinal in the Vosges mountains, active since 2016 and weaving chaos through punishing, high-speed compositions. Their name means "chaos weaver," fitting their relentless sonic assault.
Karadima is a grindcore/death metal band from the Valparaíso region of Chile, whose name references Fernando Karadima, the Chilean Catholic priest found guilty by the Vatican in 2011 of sexually abusing minors — a deliberate act of social provocation consistent with grindcore's tradition of confrontational naming. The band released their debut full-length Desde hoy seré tu dios in 2018, followed by the nano-EP Torcido and the album Mansión Guarén, both in 2020, all produced through Calaka Records.
St. Louis grindcore/hardcore act Karenocalypse lean hard into social satire without sacrificing the ferocity that makes their genre work — short bursts of fury with a pointed sense of humor since forming in 2023. A band whose name tells you everything about their attitude.
Crossover thrash and punk band with grindcore influences from the small Swedish town of Skoghall, active since 2007. Their long-running project blends hardcore punk energy with thrash velocity and grind blasts.
Porto San Giorgio (Fermo), Italy — death metal and grindcore of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2024, they deal in punk-speed chaos meeting death metal's sonic extremity. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Death metal/grindcore duo from Leipzig, formed in 2020 with a name that translates to "rabbit knife," delivering brief, violent bursts of extreme metal. Their approach pairs grindcore's brevity with death metal's guttural heaviness.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels grindcore with a focus on microsecond-length blasts of noise and fury. Formed in 2018, based in Savona, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
Belgian old-school brutal death metal act originally active in the late 1990s before disbanding in 2000, later revived as a solo project by Gabriele Cassano. Their prolific post-revival output includes Extreme Brutality, Violently Boneless, and Decomposed Mutilated Cadavers, maintaining a relentlessly graphic and punishing approach.
Brutal death metal/grindcore act from Trier, Germany, formed in 2023 and unleashing savage, blast-beat-driven extremity from the Moselle region. Their sound mines the most punishing depths of death metal and grindcore.
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