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Narrative (Instrumental) (2022)
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L'Envol (2024)
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Depravity Favours the Bold (2016)
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Born death metal and grindcore act formed in 2021, delivering rapid-fire extremity from the Limburg town. Their grinding assault combines death metal's weight with grindcore's relentless velocity.
Savage Grindcore from San Antonio.
Noizer is a death metal and grindcore band from Aprilia near Latina, Italy, active since 2012. They deliver relentless extremity from this Lazio town south of Rome.
Nolentia is a death metal and grindcore band from Toulouse, France, active since 2009, whose sound encompasses crust, doom, sludge, and grindcore. Their 2020 album Deaf/Mute (and none the wiser) delivers twelve tracks of genre-crossing extreme metal.
Bratislava psychedelic death metal and grindcore act formed in 2011, fusing trippy sonic explorations with extreme metal aggression. Their unconventional hybrid pushes boundaries within Slovakia's underground.
Nonstop Spritzen is a grindcore band from North Rhine-Westphalia, active since 2012. The band delivers relentless blasts of grindcore from Germany's most populous state.
Phoenix grindcore outfit Nooses have been delivering short, violent bursts of sonic punishment since 2018, channeling the genre's core ethos of maximum aggression in minimum time. Their music is blunt and uncompromising, built from jagged riffs, blast beats, and throat-shredding vocals that leave no room for subtlety. In a city better known for sun and sprawl, they carve out a relentlessly hostile niche.
Norylsk is a grindcore band from Włocławek, Poland, active since 2014. Named after the polluted Siberian industrial city, they grind with industrial-scale intensity.
Nospheratu is a death metal and grindcore project from Osterwieck in the Harz region, formed in 2025. The project brings vampiric extremity to the foothills of Germany's mythical mountain range.
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