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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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California's Raped by Lucifer have been grinding out a filthy hybrid of death metal and grindcore since 2014, leaning into the genre's most confrontational traditions with short, savage blasts. The project sits squarely in the American death-grind underground, where extremity of sound matches extremity of name.
RAS is a grindcore band from Tolosa in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa, Spain, active since 2009. The band delivers extreme grindcore intensity from the Basque heartland.
Rashes is a goregrind/death metal band from Sweden, formed in 2022. Their debut demo 'Necrotic Cultivation' delivers punishing deathgrind and pathological goregrind, released through Sindrome Productions on CD and Neuro Habitat Productions on cassette.
Raskol is a one-man black metal and grindcore project from Recife, Pernambuco, created and run entirely by Bruno Kbça Nascimento. The project released three records in quick succession — Kvlt Skvm Krvst (April 2019), Perturbado (July 2019), and Um Rato (February 2020) — all of which sit in a raw, crust-inflected blackened grindcore style rooted in the DIY underground of Brazil's northeast.
Death metal/grindcore band from Żmigród in Lower Silesia, active since 2018. Their rodent-themed name accompanies extreme metal from the small Polish town.
Rato Raro is a grindcore/death metal/punk band from Palencia in Castile and León, Spain, active since 2003. Named 'Strange Rat' in Spanish, the band has maintained over two decades of extreme crossover from the northern Castilian plateau.
Milan and Lecco death metal/grindcore outfit formed in 2016, delivering grinding extremity from Lombardy's urban-industrial landscape. Their rapid-fire assault combines death metal's brutality with grindcore's unrelenting pace.
Grindcore band from Guarda, Portugal, with roots dating to 2005. Two decades of extreme velocity from Portugal's highest city.
Razoreater is a grindcore band from Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, England, active since 2012. The band delivers relentless grindcore from the cathedral city in the East of England.
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