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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Rome's Staccionata pair grindcore with stoner metal since 2026. Their Italian name meaning "fence" and unlikely genre fusion create one of the more idiosyncratic combinations in the Roman underground.
Stammer is a death metal and grindcore band from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, formed in 2024, delivering short, explosive blasts of extremity that fuse grindcore's velocity with death metal's low-end brutality.
Standing on a Floor of Bodies is a San Francisco, California brutal death metal and grindcore band formed in 2010, unleashing gory, technically precise extremity from one of the West Coast's most active underground metal cities.
Novokuznetsk's Steak Chaos pair death metal and grindcore from the Kemerovo region's steel city since 2008. Their absurdist carnivorous name and industrial origins channel meat-themed mayhem into nearly two decades of extreme compositions.
Donetsk's Steak with Blood pair death metal and grindcore from the conflict-zone city since 2012. Over a decade from the Donbas capital, their culinary-gore name has channeled the rawness of undercooked flesh into compositions of visceral extremity.
Venice's Stench of Profit grind with an anti-capitalist message since 2015. Their politically charged name and Venetian origins create a critique of commerce from one of history's greatest trading cities.
Stiles is a death metal and grindcore project from Lansing, Michigan, formed in 2012. The project operates at the intersection of grinds short, blasting intensity and death metal's more deliberately brutal compositional sensibility.
Michigan grindcore and death metal band formed in 2025, blending the speed and aggression of grind with the sonic brutality of death metal in early-stage releases.
New Philadelphia, Ohio act formed in 2023 that combines death metal, grindcore, and crossover thrash into a fast and abrasive style typical of the genre's more chaotic fringe.
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