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Don't Hold Your Breath (2021)
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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The Battle of Cape Fear River (2022)
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Porto San Giorgio (Fermo), Italy — death metal and grindcore of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2024, they deal in punk-speed chaos meeting death metal's sonic extremity. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Death metal/grindcore duo from Leipzig, formed in 2020 with a name that translates to "rabbit knife," delivering brief, violent bursts of extreme metal. Their approach pairs grindcore's brevity with death metal's guttural heaviness.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels grindcore with a focus on microsecond-length blasts of noise and fury. Formed in 2018, based in Savona, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
Belgian old-school brutal death metal act originally active in the late 1990s before disbanding in 2000, later revived as a solo project by Gabriele Cassano. Their prolific post-revival output includes Extreme Brutality, Violently Boneless, and Decomposed Mutilated Cadavers, maintaining a relentlessly graphic and punishing approach.
Brutal death metal/grindcore act from Trier, Germany, formed in 2023 and unleashing savage, blast-beat-driven extremity from the Moselle region. Their sound mines the most punishing depths of death metal and grindcore.
Death/thrash metal and grindcore band from Jyvaskyla, active since 2012 and merging three extreme styles. Their name referencing the medieval Cathar heretics adds historical resonance to their genre-crossing extremity.
Ann Arbor, Michigan veterans Kathode have been at it since 1996, blending death metal's brutality with thrash's aggression and occasional blasts of grindcore chaos into a relentlessly punishing whole.
Five-piece death metal/grindcore outfit from the Stadtlohn/Munster/Essen corridor, shredding and blasting since 1999 with an extensive catalog including Ascension, Where The Light Ends, and a tribute to Nasum. Over two decades of relentless touring and recording have made them veterans of the German extreme metal circuit.
Death metal and grindcore outfit from Otley in West Yorkshire, formed in 2021 and named after the real circumbinary exoplanet. Their sound merges death metal's guttural intensity with grindcore's frenzied speed and brevity.
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