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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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Nashgul is a grindcore band from A Coruna in Galicia, active since 2002. Over two decades of relentless grinding make them one of the longest-running grindcore acts in northwestern Spain.
Nasty Face is a goregrind band from Basel, Switzerland, active since 2017. The project delivers splattery, lo-fi goregrind extremity from the cultural capital of northwestern Switzerland.
Nasty Surgeons is a death metal and grindcore band from Burgos in Castile and Leon, active since 2017. The band performs surgical death metal with clinical precision from the medieval Gothic cathedral city.
Seminal Örebro grindcore act active 1992-2004, whose four albums from 'Inhale/Exhale' to 'Shift' on Relapse and Burning Heart Records defined Swedish grindcore for a generation. The band ended tragically when frontman Mieszko Talarczyk was killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, though they briefly reunited in 2012 with Rotten Sound's Keijo Niinimaa for a 20th anniversary tour.
California's Natalie Portman Nip Slip lean hard into brutal death metal and goregrind provocation, arriving in 2025 with a name designed to shock and music designed to cave in skulls. Irreverent, abrasive, and unapologetically extreme.
Zagreb brutal death metal and grindcore outfit formed in 2014, delivering rapid-fire extremity from Croatia's capital. Their relentless sonic assault combines death metal's brutality with grindcore's blistering velocity.
Neandertaler Rulez is a death metal and grindcore band from Berlin, formed in 2022. The band's tongue-in-cheek prehistoric branding belies serious grinding extremity from the German capital.
Neapykunta is a grindcore band from Colchester, UK, formed in 2023. The band delivers relentless grindcore blasts from the southeast of England.
Richmond's Necov emerged in 2025 with blackened grindcore that swaps the capital city's storied hardcore scene for something nastier and faster. Short, violent bursts of noise sit at the intersection of blast-beat brutality and black metal scorn.
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