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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
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)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Sewer Haul deliver death metal and goregrind from Skanderborg in central Jutland, channeling subterranean filth through their sewer-themed extremity. Formed in 2024, they bring drainage-system brutality to the Danish underground.
Chicago grindcore act Sewer Rat bring the city's hardcore edge into blastbeat territory with short, furious bursts of politically charged noise. Active since 2019, they operate squarely within the grind underground, favoring speed and spite over polish.
Devastating Death Metal from Corpus Christii.
Tallahassee's Sexual Predator traffic in a chaotic convergence of black metal, death metal, and grindcore that resists easy categorization — raw and confrontational in all three modes at once. Formed in 2015 in Florida's fertile extreme music underground, they favor intensity and dissonance over any single style's rulebook.
Novokuznetsk's Sgusch grind from the Siberian steel city since 2017. Their compressed name and industrial origins in the Kuznetsk Basin channel the density of molten metal into bursts of grindcore extremity.
Death metal and grindcore band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, active from 2011 until splitting up in 2019. The band released a series of self-produced recordings including the demo Fallout (2011), Songs Thou Shall Worship (2012), Fonograms of Terror and Violence (2012), Natura Humana Abraxas – First Movement (2013), and We Are the Plague (2015), documenting a run of anti-human hardcore punk-inflected extreme metal.
Shattering Calamity deal in slam, brutal death metal, and goregrind from Madrid, combining the most extreme subgenres into a single, devastating assault. Active since 2016, they bring catastrophic brutality to the Spanish capital.
Shih Tzu deal in goregrind and cybergrind from the German underground, combining the absurd humor of their toy-dog name with the harsh, digitally enhanced extremity of their genres. Their output blends goregrind's grotesque aesthetics with cybergrind's electronic chaos.
Shimetsu deliver death metal and grindcore from Trier, Germany's oldest city, combining ancient Roman-founded heritage with some of extreme music's most modern and aggressive forms. Active since 2014, they bring blasting intensity to the Moselle Valley.
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