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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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Black metal and grindcore hybrid from Liverpool, England, active since 2013. Their unconventional combination of black metal's atmospheric darkness with grindcore's blasting brevity creates a distinctive extreme metal voice from Merseyside.
Industrial brutal death metal and grindcore project from Catalonia, Spain, pushing the boundaries of extremity since 2022. Their name itself signals the beyond-measure brutality of their fusion of industrial, death metal, and grindcore elements.
Death metal and grindcore band from Milan, Italy, active since 2009 and delivering unconventional extreme music from Italy's fashion capital. Their disruptive approach to death-grind reflects their name's promise of sonic upheaval.
Brutal death metal and goregrind band from Brescia, Italy, combining medical horror themes with extreme sonic violence since 2013. Their grotesque thematic content matches the punishing brutality of their goregrind-infused death metal.
Under Fetid Corpses is a Portuguese goregrind and death metal project from Porto, delivering visceral extremity through their 2015 debut Archives of Carnage. The 13-track release was issued in limited CD and cassette runs, both of which quickly sold through.
Genre-defying extreme metal act from Aachen, Germany, described as a chimera of mathcore, post-grind, grindcore, and black metal, active since 2008. Their 2019 album Empire of Bastards, mastered by Jaime Gomez Arellano at Orgone Studios London, showcases their refusal to follow stereotypical metal conventions.
Blackened grind band from Fuenlabrada on the outskirts of Madrid, blasting since 2009 and fusing grindcore's velocity with black metal's malevolence. Their 2022 album Mysticastration was released through a coalition of labels including Victim Records and Hecatombe Records.
Undermost is a death metal and grindcore act from Istanbul, Turkey, delivering extreme metal brutality since 2009 from Turkey's largest city. The project fuses grinding intensity with death metal's heaviness.
Death metal and grindcore act from Santander on Spain's northern coast, delivering dual-genre extremity since 2016. Their sound combines the grinding speed and brevity of grindcore with death metal's guttural heaviness.
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