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Meant to Suffer were a grindcore band whose sound pulled in elements of crust punk, hardcore, and sludge alongside their blasting core. The four-piece — Al on vocals, Louie on guitar, Gus on bass and vocals, and Rod on drums — released "A Step Towards Deception" in 2012 and a self-titled record in 2015 before eventually splitting up.
Meat Chopper In Action is a one-man old school grindcore project from Czechia by Sebastian, who also plays in Catatomb. Drawing inspiration from Agathocles, Napalm Death, and Rot, the project delivered the 2023 album 'Purgatory Begins' with Sebastian handling all instrumentation, vocals, and production.
Meatgag is a brutal death metal/goregrind band from Russia, formed in 2024. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
A death-grind project driven largely by Billy Grind, who handles all instruments and vocals, Megalodon released a self-titled EP in 2018 followed by "Sozinho Contra Todos" in 2022. The project pulls from industrial and electro-grindcore textures while retaining the blasting, short-format brutality expected from the genre.
MeinKraft is an experimental deathcore/grindcore/goregrind act from Zlín, Czech Republic, formed in 2021. Their sound pushes into the chaotic extremes of heavy music, blending the breakdowns of deathcore with grindcore's velocity and goregrind's visceral shock value.
Aurora, Illinois gave birth to Melting Rot in 2025, a grindcore outfit that wastes no time and shows no mercy. Short songs, maximum punishment — their grindcore is rooted in the classic tradition of brevity as brutality, weaponizing speed and noise against any expectation of melody or restraint. Aurora sits in Chicago's orbit, and that industrial midwest grit runs through Melting Rot's aesthetic like a live wire.
Lakeland, Florida's Menstrual Moonshine operate in the overlapping territory between brutal death metal and grindcore where songs are measured in seconds and volume is the primary compositional tool. Formed in 2020, they lean into the Sunshine State's longstanding tradition of extreme metal extremity, weaponizing short-duration brutality and blast beats with the kind of commitment that makes the genre's most outrageous acts genuinely compelling rather than merely provocative. Florida has produced some of the most unhinged death metal in the world, and Menstrual Moonshine approach that lineage with appropriately unhinged results.
Buffalo, New York's Mental Anguish have been grinding since 2018, bringing a relentless grindcore assault to a city with a deep and underappreciated metal history. Their approach to the genre is rooted in the classic tradition of pure physical aggression — short, blasting, and without mercy, the kind of grindcore that leaves no room for subtlety or patience. Buffalo's long winters and blue-collar grit seem to seep into the music, lending a certain grim purposefulness to the brutality.
Mental Case is a death metal/grindcore band from Eberswalde, Germany, active since 2010. Their sound combines death metal's brutality with grindcore's relentless velocity from the Brandenburg underground northeast of Berlin.
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