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Featured Album
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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San Marcos death/grind outfit formed in 2020, delivering punishing blastbeats and caustic riffs with the relentless intensity the Texas underground demands.
Dutch death metal/grindcore band from Rotterdam, delivering savage extremity since 2008. Their surgical name signals the precise, cutting aggression of their deathgrind assault.
Swedish sludge metal/grindcore band from Malmo, formed in 2024 and merging abrasive sludge with grinding speed. Named after the Chinese execution method, their sound channels slow torture through extreme metal.
Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from San Antonio.
Knoxville's Lo Pan channel pure grindcore energy into short, violent bursts, keeping the chaos tightly coiled and the runtime mercifully — or brutally — brief.
Grindcore/death metal outfit from Ghent, Belgium, unleashing short, savage blasts of extremity since 2012. Their sound combines grind's blistering speed and brevity with death metal's low-end heaviness and guttural vocals.
French death metal/grindcore and metalcore band from Alencon, formed in 2020 and blending multiple strains of extremity. Their versatile approach spans the aggressive spectrum from deathgrind brevity to metalcore breakdowns.
Madrid-based grindcore/death metal band active from 2011, delivering visceral deathgrind with anti-speciesist themes on Willowtip Records. Their album 'Dios Carne' blends blast-beat precision with old-school death metal influence across fourteen tracks of throat-ripping extremity.
Polish grindcore/death/black metal/noise band from Zabrze, merging multiple extreme styles since 2015. Their vowel-stripped name reflects the abrasive, stripped-down character of their multi-genre noise assault.
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