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UK act Organic Brain Disorder grinds through death metal and grindcore with clinical brutality and surgical precision. Their short, explosive compositions channel the intensity of early Carcass and Napalm Death.
Brooklyn's Orthopedic Cranial Encavement announced themselves in 2021 with a name that functions as its own content advisory — a grindcore act whose music is as compressed, chaotic, and medically inadvisable as their moniker suggests. New York noise colliding with blast-beat precision.
Os Capial channel the interior São Paulo caipira culture into abrasive grindcore, with lyrics, imagery, and speech all rooted in the rural working-class world their name pays tribute to. Since their 2015 debut Nossa Grindroça Querida they have maintained a prolific pace, releasing titles like Grindiagem Deatherra (2016), Emboscada Caipira de Plasma (2017), and Chichá - Sterculea Foetida (2018), each one hammering the collision of regional identity and extreme noise.
Osculum Obscenum built their reputation on ferocious black metal shot through with grindcore aggression, with their 2003 album Body Hurting Art cited by Brazilian underground historians as one of the most significant extreme metal releases the country produced in that era, alongside landmarks like INRI and Wicca. They later returned with material including Engendrum and Avances de Muerte before eventually disbanding, leaving behind a catalog regarded as visceral and uncompromising even by the standards of the Satanic underground.
German thrash/death metal band from Reher with grindcore, progressive, and rock elements, active since 2020. Their eclectic approach fuses multiple genres into a volatile, boundary-defying compound.
Devastating Death Metal / Grindcore out of Texas.
Houston grindcore institution. Raw speed marrying grindcore with thrash. A pillar of Gulf Coast grind.
Pabllo Vittar with Guns is a blasting extreme metal project that collides black metal, death metal, and grindcore into an unapologetically confrontational package, flying the flag for LGBTQIA+ representation in the heaviest corners of the underground. Their 2023 debut EP announced them with six tracks of ferocious, deliberately lo-fi noise and a title that leaves no ambiguity about who they're playing for.
Goregrind band from Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russia, formed in 2015, delivering grotesque grindcore from the Rostov Oblast. They bring crude extremity to the southern Russian underground.
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