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Divine (2024)
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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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Out of Lawrence, Kansas, Rimjob have been weaponizing the grindcore/death metal collision since 2016 with a relentless, economical brutality. Their songs are short, vicious, and deliberately stripped of any pretense — pure aggression delivered at maximum velocity. Despite operating in a college town better known for indie rock, they've built a reputation in underground extreme metal circles for uncompromising nastiness.
Ripped 2 Shreds is a death metal and grindcore band from Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2018. The band brings extreme speed and brutality to the Westphalian university city's underground.
Death metal/grindcore band from Genoa, Italy, formed in 2020. Named after the giant centipede, their approach delivers venomous extreme metal from the Ligurian port city.
Roachwhore crawled out of Kingsport, Tennessee in 2022 with a fixation on the ugliest end of extreme music, blending goregrind's visceral obsession with bodily horror into a grindcore framework that is relentlessly fast and purposefully repulsive. Their sound is short, brutal, and uncompromising — the kind of band that treats a two-minute runtime as generous.
Death metal/goregrind band from Cornwall, England, active since 2016. Their approach delivers visceral extreme metal from England's remote southwestern peninsula.
Rogus is a death metal and grindcore band from Heddesheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, formed in 2012. The band merges death metal heaviness with grindcore velocity from the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region.
Grindcore/death metal band from Olsztyn, Poland, formed in 2022. Their Polish name, meaning 'romantic evening,' ironically accompanies extreme grindcore brutality.
New Jersey's Rorschach have been colliding hardcore, metalcore, grindcore, and powerviolence since 2017 in a way that doesn't so much blend genres as force them into the same room. The result is aggressive and unpredictable, built on the intensity of hardcore and the technical vocabulary of metal without ever settling into either camp.
Rosetta Twist is a goregrind project from Germany, formed in 2022. The project delivers visceral, microsecond-length blasts of extreme noise in the goregrind tradition.
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