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Brutal death metal/goregrind act from Germany, formed in 2024. Their ultra-extreme fusion of slam-heavy brutality and goregrind pushes the boundaries of sonic violence.
Human Harvest is a death metal/grindcore band from Sundsvall, Sweden, active since 2014 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Human Meat is a grindcore act from France, active since 2019 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
Human Meat Grinder is a one-person death metal and grindcore project from São Paulo, Brazil, created by Rafael Douglas. Their debut EP Matadouro (December 2021) blends death metal and grindcore with sociopolitical lyrics documenting the catastrophic social and political conditions faced by Brazilians, with all tracks written, recorded, and mixed by Douglas at home.
Human Misery is a deathgrind band formed in 2021 in Piedecuesta, Colombia. The band released the demo Corrosión del orden in 2022 followed by the demo Torned Apart in 2023, and appeared on the split compilation Grindcore (Isn't) Mediocre in 2024.
Thrash/death metal and grindcore act from Schneegattern, Austria, emerging in 2022 with a filthy crossover of extreme styles. Their uncompromising sound merges the speed of thrash with death metal heaviness and grindcore brevity.
Human Stench was a crust/death metal/grindcore band from Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, active from 2016 until their split. The band released the promo cassette Perspective of Displeasure in November 2017, recorded earlier that year, featuring eight tracks of lo-fi noise-inflected crust grind.
New York's Humanity Falls have been dissecting death metal and grindcore through an experimental lens since 2009, treating tempo, structure, and brutality as variables rather than constants. Technical, disorienting, and genuinely unsettling.
Humanoise is a death metal/grindcore band from Esztergom, Hungary, active since 2021 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
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