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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)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Veteran extreme metal band from Naples, Italy, active since 1996 and evolving from early brutal death metal toward a blend of death metal, grindcore, and hardcore. Nearly three decades of activity make them one of the longest-running extreme acts in the Neapolitan underground.
Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Strasbourg in Alsace, France, active since 2017 and delivering dual-genre extremity from the Franco-German border region. Their sound combines the blasting speed of grindcore with brutal death metal's guttural ferocity.
Death metal and grindcore band from Oborniki Slaskie in Lower Silesia, Poland, named after the infamous industrial disaster, active since 2014. Their toxic namesake matches the corrosive intensity of their death-grind assault.
Baltimore's Universal Remonster traffic in the churning overlap between death metal and grindcore, delivering the kind of controlled chaos that's kept them active in Maryland's metal underground since 2012. Fast, brutal, and oddly mechanical in their precision.
Sludge, doom, and grindcore band from Faversham in Kent, England, active since 2022 and delivering unmerciful sonic terror through an unusual genre combination. Their sound blends the crushing weight of sludge-doom with grindcore's explosive brevity.
Helsinki-based grindcore band active since 2012, whose Finnish name translates to 'Forgotten Future,' delivering blisteringly fast extreme music. Their sound channels the politically charged energy of grindcore through Finnish-language lyrics.
Legendary grindcore pioneers from Broseley, Shropshire, originally formed in 1987 as part of the foundational wave of British grindcore. Their historic significance places them alongside the genre's earliest innovators from the UK underground.
Brutal death metal and grindcore band from Lille in northern France, active since 2010 and delivering relentless extremity. Their sound combines grindcore's blistering tempos with brutal death metal's guttural depth.
Blackened grindcore, noise, and death metal project from Belfast, Northern Ireland, active since 2015 and evolving from early grindcore-noise toward blackened death metal. Their confrontational sound reflects Belfast's growing reputation for extreme metal.
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