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Grindcore band from Uppsala, Sweden, active since 2002, delivering over two decades of provocatively named extreme grindcore. They are veterans of the Swedish grindcore underground.
Percutor is a grindcore band from Mexico City, Mexico, formed in 2019. The band has released a self-titled demo (2019) and a follow-up Sessions demo (2021), both independently. They remain unsigned and active.
Brive-la-Gaillarde's Pervitine channels black metal from the Corrèze department since 2023, named after the methamphetamine brand used by WWII soldiers. Their remote Limousin setting breeds a wired, paranoid intensity befitting their pharmaceutical namesake.
Pesto coined the term "culinary grindcore" for their particular strain of brutal death metal and grindcore, built around grotesque gastronomic and cannibal lyrical themes. The trio of Diego Firmo, Diego Andrade, and Marcio Barbosa debuted with an EP that included a music video for the track "Cutting Corpse," establishing a darkly comedic identity within extreme metal.
Pezadilla is a death metal and grindcore band from Medellín, Colombia, active since 2011. The band recorded a live session album in 2012 and appeared on the split "Purulenta simbiosis" in 2022, with an additional full-length "Medellin Morgue" noted in their discography. They operate as an independent unsigned act.
Black metal and goregrind project from Murcia, Spain, formed in 2019, combining the unlikely pairing of black metal atmosphere with goregrind extremity. Their hybrid approach pushes the limits of extreme metal from southeastern Spain.
Death metal and grindcore band from Coburg, Germany, formed in 2007, bringing crude extremity and irreverent energy to the Franconian metal underground. They are a veteran act in the Bavarian grindcore scene.
Phobia is a grindcore band from Orange County, California, formed in 1990 and one of the longer-lived American acts in the genre. Operating in the tradition of crust punk and grindcore with explicitly socio-political and anarchist lyrical content, the band released albums across labels including Slap-a-Ham, Willowtip, Relapse, and Deep Six Records, with Means of Existence (1998), Serenity Through Pain (2001), and Cruel (2006) among their key releases. Their sound adheres to blastbeat-driven grindcore orthodoxy, distinguished by consistent political conviction rather than genre experimentation.
Grindcore and death metal band from Ankara, Turkey, formed in 2015, named after the chemical warfare agent phosgene. A decade of toxic grindcore from the Turkish capital.
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