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Death metal and grindcore act from Lysychansk in the Luhansk region, formed in 2023 and creating extreme music from one of Ukraine's most conflict-affected areas. Their grinding assault carries a weight beyond the purely musical.
Gynecrology is a brutal death metal and grindcore project from the Île-de-France region, emerging in 2025 with a punishing blend of guttural brutality and grinding velocity. The project operates in the most extreme fringes of the French death metal underground.
Gälernå is a death metal, grindcore, and sludge band from Gijón and Mieres in Asturias, Spain, formed in 2021, blending the crushing weight of sludge with the ferocity of grindcore and death metal. Their sound channels the industrial grit and harsh climate of northern Spain's mining country.
Gulguta is a blackened death metal and grindcore project from Fribourg, Switzerland, active since 2013, whose catalog spans four releases from the self-titled debut through albums II, III, and Andzia. The project evolved from pure grindcore origins into a more layered blackened death metal/grindcore hybrid.
Los Angeles grindcore outfit H.A.R.M. has been blasting through the Southern California underground since 2018, delivering the kind of short, violent bursts that the genre demands. Their name functions as a mission statement.
Northampton, Pennsylvania's Hackpeter mashes death metal's surgical brutality against grindcore's frantic brevity, producing a sound that's equal parts calculated and chaotic since their 2019 formation.
Portland's Hacksaw brings a grind-splattered death metal sound to the Pacific Northwest underground, their jagged attack and economical song structures marking them as a product of the city's adventurous extreme scene since 2016.
Columbus, Ohio's Hadak Ura is one of the more unorthodox acts to emerge from the Midwest's extreme metal scene — a grinding black metal project that fuses the frozen hatred of black metal with the frenetic velocity of grindcore since 2015.
Haemophagus is a death metal/grindcore band from Palermo, Italy, active since 2009 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
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