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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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Rotten Organs is a death metal and goregrind band from A Coruña in Galicia, northwestern Spain, formed in 2024. The band channels visceral extremity from the Atlantic port city in Spain's Celtic-influenced corner.
Rotten Poodle is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Taulé in Brittany, France, active since 2013. The band delivers extreme music from the Finistère coast of northwestern France.
Rotten Sound is a grindcore band from Vaasa on the west coast of Finland, with renewed Bandcamp activity from 2016. The band delivers relentless, high-speed grindcore from the Ostrobothnian coast.
Rotten Stench is a German grindcore project formed in 2025, delivering microsecond blasts and guttural extremity. The project represents the newest wave of German grindcore.
Deathgrind band formed in Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil in 1990, featuring Nocturnal Mutilator on guitar and vocals and Daniel Excruciator on drums. The band released the Infanticious Monstrosities 7" EP in 1993 through Hellion Records and Rotthenness Records, followed by the full-length Submandible Limphatic Muscles on Lofty Storm Records in 1995; a 2020 retrospective compilation on Italy's Nuclear Abominations Records collected their complete 1991–1995 recordings across 35 tracks.
Death metal/grindcore band from Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland, active since 2014. Their approach delivers extreme metal from the town east of Warsaw.
Sludge/death metal/grindcore band from Worcester, England, with roots dating to 2005. Two decades of triple-genre extreme metal from the West Midlands represent exceptional underground longevity.
Rubufaso Mukufo is a grindcore and brutal death metal band from Ostrava in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic, active since 2007. Self-describing their output as 'raw, aggressive and intensive Grind Core at its best,' their releases include Violent Show 2017 and Mortal Assassinity.
Rude Thing is a grindcore band from Palma on the island of Mallorca in Spain's Balearic Islands, formed in 2015. The band delivers extreme grindcore from the Mediterranean island paradise.
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