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RazorRape is a goregrind/death metal band from southern Sweden, formed in 2009. Featuring members from Deranged, Virgin Sin, and Inverted, the band has built a catalog of six releases of punishing extreme metal, including 'Fucked Beyond Recognition' on limited vinyl pressings.
Re-Fuse is an industrial death/doom metal and grindcore band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, active since 2013. The band merges industrial electronics with extreme metal from the Northern Irish capital.
Realidade Mórbida is a two-person grindcore project from Paraíba, Brazil, formed in October 2019 by Paulo Anarkio (vocals) and João Terrorizer (guitars, bass, drum programming). The duo released the demo Desordem e Retrocesso in 2020 and the EP Metamorfose Degenerada.
Death metal/grindcore band from Modena, Italy, active since 2011. Their long-running project delivers extreme velocity and heaviness from the Emilia-Romagna city.
Rectal Devastation is a slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band from West Yorkshire, England, active since 2011. The band delivers extreme slam and goregrind from the industrial north.
Goregrind band from Bydgoszcz, Poland, formed in 2025. Their deliberately crude name accompanies extreme goregrind from the Kuyavian-Pomeranian city.
Goregrind and brutal death metal band from Naaldwijk, the Netherlands, with roots dating to 2004. Two decades of deliberately grotesque extreme metal from the South Holland greenhouse district.
Kyiv death metal and grindcore act formed in 2020, delivering rapid-fire extremity with characteristically irreverent naming from Ukraine's capital. Their grinding assault channels the most punishing qualities of both genres.
Virginia Beach's Redundant Protoplasm have been grinding out goregrind and grindcore since 2019, inhabiting the biology-obsessed subgenre's tradition of grotesque humor and extreme brevity with apparent relish. Few bands operate with as much scalpel-precision obscurantism this close to the beach.
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