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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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Grindcore/goregrind band from Jyvaskyla, formed in 2022 and delivering the most extreme, gory sonic violence central Finland has to offer. Their ironically positive name contrasts with the repulsive intensity of their goregrind.
Veteran Czech grindcore band from Rosice, active since 1999 and delivering decades of punishing, blast-beat-driven extremity. Their longevity in the Czech grindcore underground speaks to an unwavering commitment to the genre's most abrasive impulses.
Slam/brutal death metal and grindcore band from Vantaa, active since 2012 and delivering the most extreme, deliberately offensive sonic violence in the Finnish underground. Their provocative name matches their commitment to pushing boundaries of heaviness.
Death metal/grindcore project from Germany, active since 2016 with a Japanese name meaning "to torment." Their extreme metal draws inspiration from Asian culture while delivering punishing grindcore and death metal.
Death metal/grindcore/deathcore band from Tuttlingen in Baden-Wurttemberg, formed in 2024 and delivering a triple-threat of extreme metal subgenres. Their provocative Swabian dialect name signals an irreverent approach to brutal music.
Death metal/grindcore band from Vaasa in Ostrobothnia, formed in 2023 with a Finnish name meaning "nausea" or "disgust." Their revolting theme channels visceral revulsion through punishing extreme metal.
Death metal and grindcore band from Thessaloniki, active since 2010 and dealing in the extreme aggression where death metal's guttural heaviness meets grindcore's frenzied velocity. Their longevity in the Thessaloniki scene reflects a committed approach to extreme music.
Death metal and grindcore outfit from the Bolbec/Le Havre/Rouen corridor in Normandy, France, formed in 2024. The band merges grinding blast-beat intensity with guttural death metal savagery in the tradition of classic grind/death crossover.
Erupting out of Everett, Washington in 2024, Kyphosis fuse brutal death metal and grindcore with jarring industrial textures — a collision of brute force and mechanical hostility that feels genuinely new even by extreme metal standards.
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