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Blackened grindcore colliding with death metal at full speed, Laughing and Lying produce short, violent bursts of noise designed to disorient and devastate in equal measure.
Greek act from Athens that evolved from grindcore/death metal origins in 2013 into black metal territory. Their genre transformation traces a path from grinding extremity to atmospheric blackened darkness.
Sacramento's Legion of Malice have been thrashing the Northern California death and grind underground since forming in 2023, spitting out short, venomous bursts of noise with maximum hostility. Two minutes at a time, they leave little standing.
Philadelphia's Legions of Eligos arrived in 2026 summoning demonic namesake in black and death metal hammered through grindcore's brevity and force. The city's extreme metal underground has a new entry that wastes no time on subtlety.
Leng Tch'e is a Belgian grindcore band from Ghent, formed in 2001 and named after the Chinese execution method known as "death by a thousand cuts." The band coined the term "razorgrind" to describe their fusion of grindcore with death metal, stoner rock, and metalcore elements, releasing their debut Death by a Thousand Cuts in 2002 before signing to Relapse Records for a run of albums including Marasmus (2007) and Hypomanic. Their approach to extreme brevity and sonic violence places them among the more intellectually self-aware bands in the genre.
Finnish death metal/grindcore band from Turku, formed in 2023 and blending savage brevity with brutal heaviness. Their playful name belies the serious extremity of their deathgrind assault.
Serbian black metal/grindcore band from Smederevska Palanka, merging blackened fury with grinding brevity since 2022. Their volatile fusion combines black metal's atmosphere with grindcore's savage speed.
Finnish death metal/goregrind act from Helsinki, formed in 2024 and channeling visceral extremity. Their sound merges death metal's crushing heaviness with goregrind's graphic intensity.
Liberteer is the solo grindcore project of Santa Cruz, California musician Matthew Widener, better known for his work in Exhumed and Cretin, formed around 2011. Their sole album Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees (2012, Relapse Records) is a dense political statement rooted in anarchist philosophy, notable for grafting brass instruments, banjo, and mandolin onto a blasting death-grind foundation. The project remains a curio of the early 2010s extreme metal underground for its ideological commitment and unusual instrumentation.
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