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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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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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Total Consumption is a death metal/grindcore band from London, active since 2017. Their music delivers relentless blasts of extreme music that consume everything in their path with death metal brutality and grindcore velocity.
Philadelphia grindcore institution Total Fucking Destruction have been a fixture of the underground since 2007, known for their politically charged, intellectually provocative approach to a genre more often associated with pure sonic brutality.
Tourette from Reims deliver grindcore and death 'n' roll with the uncontrollable, involuntary intensity their neurological-syndrome name suggests since 2006. Nearly two decades of output from the Champagne capital has produced compositions as unpredictable as their namesake condition.
Toxic Shock Syndrom from Augsburg have been delivering death metal and grindcore with clinical, pathological intensity since 2012. Named after the life-threatening bacterial condition, their Bavarian Swabian base produces music as acute and devastating as their medical namesake.
Out of the small coastal enclave of Baywood-Los Osos, California, Toxic Wizard collapse genre walls with reckless abandon, fusing sludge heaviness, grindcore violence, power metal theatrics, and experimental noise into a deliberately unclassifiable whole since 2016.
Des Moines, Iowa's Traffic Death have been colliding crossover thrash and grindcore into short, furious bursts since 2014, trading in maximum speed and minimum patience with the kind of confrontational energy that defines both genres.
Gulfport, Mississippi grindcore newcomers Trafficcancer formed in 2025 and immediately dove into the genre's most abrasive end, offering blastbeat-driven chaos from an unlikely corner of the American South.
Transnational Dying Phallus from Pantin in the Paris suburbs have been delivering death metal and grindcore under one of extreme music's most provocative band names since 2001. Over two decades of boundary-pushing compositions from the Seine-Saint-Denis banlieue have established them as gloriously confrontational fixtures of the French grind underground.
Trap Them are a grindcore and crust punk powerhouse whose blistering, d-beat-informed attack has made them one of the more ferocious acts in American extreme music — raw, politically charged, and uncompromisingly abrasive.
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