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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Death/thrash metal and grindcore band from Jyvaskyla, active since 2012 and merging three extreme styles. Their name referencing the medieval Cathar heretics adds historical resonance to their genre-crossing extremity.
Ann Arbor, Michigan veterans Kathode have been at it since 1996, blending death metal's brutality with thrash's aggression and occasional blasts of grindcore chaos into a relentlessly punishing whole.
Five-piece death metal/grindcore outfit from the Stadtlohn/Munster/Essen corridor, shredding and blasting since 1999 with an extensive catalog including Ascension, Where The Light Ends, and a tribute to Nasum. Over two decades of relentless touring and recording have made them veterans of the German extreme metal circuit.
Death metal and grindcore outfit from Otley in West Yorkshire, formed in 2021 and named after the real circumbinary exoplanet. Their sound merges death metal's guttural intensity with grindcore's frenzied speed and brevity.
Death metal/grindcore project from Finland, formed in 2024 and named after the city of Kerava combined with the German word for "secret." Their extreme metal delivers punishing brevity with a dark, clandestine edge.
The Turkish city of İzmir serves as headquarters for this death metal and grindcore operation, whose arsenal includes weaponized brevity delivering maximum aggression in minimum time. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Brutal death metal/grindcore band from Cordoba in Andalusia, active since 2000 and delivering a quarter-century of extreme sonic violence. Their armored-skin name reflects the impenetrable, punishing nature of their quarter-century catalog.
Grindcore/death metal band from Llanca in Catalonia near the French border, active since 2013 and delivering punishing extremity. Their sea-monster name matches the monstrous, tentacled aggression of their grindcore.
Ferocious Dallas grindcore on Relapse Records. Members also in PLF and Noisear.
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