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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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Scottish death metal and grindcore outfit formed in 2022, bringing brutal extremity from north of the border. Their grinding assault channels the tradition of old-school death metal fused with grindcore's relentless velocity.
Grindcore/death metal band from Indaiatuba, São Paulo, formed in 2015 and drawing influence from acts such as Exhumed, Impaled, and Haemorrhage. They contributed a track to a split with Pigskinner in December 2015 and released the full-length Contos de Impulsos Antropofágicos Mutilações Desmembramentos e Manifestações de Doenças Crônicas in April 2017.
Regurgitate is a legendary goregrind band from Stockholm/Mjölby, Sweden, formed in 1990. Swedish goregrind extremists who signed to Relapse Records in 1999, they pioneered a style of cramming extreme brevity into chaotic sonic violence across albums like 'Sickening Bliss' and 'Deviant.'
Death/thrash metal/grindcore band from Poland, active since 2015. Their extreme name accompanies a triple-genre approach to aggressive metal.
Regurgitated Innards is a death metal/grindcore band from Uppsala, Sweden, active since 2014. Their releases 'Feeding the Abominable,' 'Gutting Process,' and 'Smothered' deliver visceral extreme metal from the Swedish underground.
Bergenfield, New Jersey's Regurgitation have been working the grindcore and death metal underground since 2011, drawing on the East Coast's long history of extreme brutality in a town that sits in the sprawl outside New York City. Direct, unpolished, and built on the genre's core values of speed and aggression.
Grindcore/black metal crossover from Milan, Italy, active since 2010. Their approach merges grindcore's blasting velocity with black metal's atmospheric hostility.
Ankara grindcore act formed in 2010, delivering blasting extremity with irreverent humor from Turkey's capital. Their rapid-fire sonic assaults channel the confrontational spirit of the grindcore tradition.
Amherst, Massachusetts's Relentless Insurrection have been blending grindcore's maximal speed with thrash metal's riff backbone since 2021, forged in the tight-knit western Massachusetts DIY scene that surrounds the Five Colleges area. The academic-town setting belies a sound that is anything but careful.
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