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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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Necropota is a grindcore, black metal, and brutal death metal band from Madrid, active since 2011. The band delivers a chaotic fusion of extreme subgenres from the Spanish capital.
Savage Brutal Death Metal out of Texas.
Oleksandriya brutal death metal and grindcore act launched in 2024, delivering rapid-fire extremity from central Ukraine's Kirovohrad region. Their grinding assault combines death metal brutality with grindcore velocity.
Płock grindcore act formed in 2013, whose provocative name signals the most transgressive corners of the genre. Their blasting extremity channels grindcore's confrontational spirit.
Necrostarted is a death metal and goregrind band from San Fernando in the Bay of Cadiz, active since 2016. The band delivers visceral extremity from the naval port city of Andalusia.
Necrotic Goatslaughter is a grindcore band from Edinburgh, Scotland, active since 2013. The band delivers relentless grindcore blasts from the Scottish capital.
Necrotized Mass is a death metal and grindcore band from Viareggio near Lucca, Italy, active since 2020. They grind from this Tuscan coastal resort town known for its carnival.
Necrotizing Vulva is a brutal death metal and goregrind project from Offenbach near Frankfurt, formed in 2025. The project brings visceral extremity to the Rhine-Main area with uncompromising gore-soaked brutality.
Necrowizard is a black/death metal and grindcore project from Koblenz at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle, formed in 2024. The project channels occult wizardry through a chaotic blend of extreme metal subgenres.
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