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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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Finnish death metal/grindcore band from Turku, formed in 2023 and blending savage brevity with brutal heaviness. Their playful name belies the serious extremity of their deathgrind assault.
Serbian black metal/grindcore band from Smederevska Palanka, merging blackened fury with grinding brevity since 2022. Their volatile fusion combines black metal's atmosphere with grindcore's savage speed.
Lepra is a grindcore band from Moreno, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed in 2019. The band plays what they describe as "rough, fast and chaotic" grindcore rooted in the Pernambuco underground scene, with releases including the 2012 demo, the "Carniceiro" EP, and the full-length "O Ódio é a Minha Existência." They have also contributed tracks to Brazilian tribute compilations honoring Nasum and Agathocles.
Finnish death metal/goregrind act from Helsinki, formed in 2024 and channeling visceral extremity. Their sound merges death metal's crushing heaviness with goregrind's graphic intensity.
Liberteer is the solo grindcore project of Santa Cruz, California musician Matthew Widener, better known for his work in Exhumed and Cretin, formed around 2011. Their sole album Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees (2012, Relapse Records) is a dense political statement rooted in anarchist philosophy, notable for grafting brass instruments, banjo, and mandolin onto a blasting death-grind foundation. The project remains a curio of the early 2010s extreme metal underground for its ideological commitment and unusual instrumentation.
Libidinous Suspirus is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Belém, Pará, Brazil, founded by Brendo Marcos. The band released their EP "Church of Orgiastic Depravity" in October 2016, recorded across two studios in Belém, and have been an active presence in the extreme underground of northern Brazil since 2013.
Libranos del Mal is a grindcore and powerviolence band from Medellín, Colombia, formed in 2019 and signed to The Hills Are Dead Records. The band released several EPs including "Toda carne mortal debe arder" (2020), "El milagro del mayor dolor" (2023), and "Mortinato" (2025), culminating in their debut full-length "Las columnas del cielo tienen base en el abismo" in 2026.
London-based grindcore band formed in 2018, delivering short, savage blasts of extremity. Their name captures the devastating, all-consuming character of their grindcore assault.
Cleveland goregrind practitioners Ligament arrived in 2025 tearing through death metal and goregrind with anatomical precision, adding a fresh dose of visceral noise to the city's proud extreme metal lineage.
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