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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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A grindcore and death metal act from Móstoles on the outskirts of Madrid, Mortaja — Spanish for 'shroud' — grinds out short, punishing bursts of extremity. Active since 2017, the band maintains the low-fidelity fury of classic grindcore.
A brutal death metal and grindcore act from Kazan, Mortalized has been delivering punishing extremity since 2018. The band channels the Volga-Ural region's underground intensity into blast-driven compositions.
Las Vegas's Mortician are a long-running brutal death metal and grindcore outfit active since 2002, known for machine-gun drumming, pulverizing down-tuned guitars, and horror-obsessed lyrical themes drawn from cult films and splatter fiction.
Baltimore's Mortuaria, formed in 2025, fuse death metal's crushing density with grindcore's explosive brevity, emerging from Maryland's storied extreme metal underground with a debut that wastes no time on subtlety.
Templeton, California grindcore act Mortuary Moonshine, formed in 2023, bring short, fast, and chaotic blasts of noise to the Central Coast underground, combining grindcore's trademark speed and aggression with a name that hints at backwoods grime.
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Charleston, South Carolina's Mothmother smash sludge metal and grindcore into a volatile collision of punishment and noise, channeling the coastal South's heat and humidity into bursts of chaotic, caustic heaviness. Active since 2017, they are one of the more abrasive and uncompromising acts to emerge from the Lowcountry underground.
MotorDeath is a DIY death/punk band from Thessaloniki, Greece, fusing death metal aggression with punk energy. Their releases 'Strangled by Slavery' and 'Trenched Existence' deliver raw, underground-ethos-driven extremity from the city's DIY scene.
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