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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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Heerenveen's Stoma grind from the Frisian town since 2013. Their medical name referencing surgical openings and their northern Dutch origins channel clinical imagery into bursts of grindcore extremity.
Stoner Witch is an unusual hybrid act from San Antonio, Texas, formed in 2010, fusing the slow, hazy heaviness of stoner/doom metal with the blasting extremity of grindcore into an abrasive and unpredictable sound.
Stormcrow is an Oakland, California band formed in 2005 that merges the rawness of crust punk with grinding death metal brutality, earning recognition in underground circles for their ferocious, socially charged material.
Gilbert, Arizona goregrind and brutal death metal outfit formed in 2025, combining the frenzied extremity of goregrind with the crushing density of brutal death metal.
Grindcore band from Presidente Prudente and Birigui, São Paulo, active since the mid-1990s with a core lineup of Afonso (drums/vocals), Souza (bass/vocals), and Helder (guitar). They released a self-titled EP through Grindhead Records in August 2014, contributed a track to Siege of Grind: A Brazilian Tribute to Napalm Death (Terceiro Mundo Chaos Discos, 2013), and have issued splits with U.S. grindcore acts PLF and Pretty Little Flower.
Novara's Subhuman Hordes merge death metal and grindcore from the Piedmontese plains since 2015. Their horde-mentality name channels the overwhelming force of numbers into dense, relentless extremity.
Long Beach, California sludge metal and grindcore band formed in 2013, merging the suffocating weight of sludge with the blistering tempos and noise of grindcore.
Oklahoma City band formed in 2014 that splices together thrash metal, grindcore, and doom into a chaotic and deliberately genre-defying hybrid rooted in the Oklahoma underground.
Death metal and grindcore band from São Paulo, founded in 2011 by guitarist Gustavo Cacezi and bassist Bruno Avenoso. The lineup expanded to include vocalist Marco Saturnino and drummer Osmar Jr, and the band released a self-titled recording in March 2015 followed by the EP O Templo da Cegueira in October 2020, the latter recorded live at Estudio Badaroska in São Paulo.
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