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Axia delivers death metal and grindcore from Porto since 2018. Their Greek-derived name meaning 'value' or 'worth' brings philosophical weight to extreme metal from northern Portugal.
Axis of Despair delivers grindcore from Örebro since 2018. Their geopolitical-despair name drives blastbeat-laden compositions of compressed violence from central Sweden's Närke province.
Aüscülta is a death metal and grindcore band from Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil, formed in 2021 and part of a small but tenacious extreme metal scene in Brazil's northeastern interior. Their name — a stylized rendering of the Portuguese/Latin word meaning "listen" — signals an abrasive, confrontational approach to brutality, combining death metal's heaviness with grindcore's short-burst intensity.
Grindcore act from Culemborg, formed in 2001. Their music exists in a state of perpetual detonation, packing blast beats and screamed vocals into compositions that rarely exceed the two-minute mark.
Philadelphia power-violence and grindcore trio who describe their music as Eternal Microbursts of Electric Power, releasing a string of EPs and split 7-inches including records with Nimbus Terrifix and Chainsaw to the Face alongside albums such as Primordial Paranoia and Psychic Rot.
Spanish grindcore band from Badalona near Barcelona, formed in 2013. They deliver short, punishing blasts of grindcore from the Catalan coast.
Los Angeles crossover/thrash and grindcore band formed in 1989 by Keith Aazami and Dirk Rogers, maintaining a relentless output across three-plus decades that includes Lynch the Weirdo (2004), Worship of Fear (2015), Taught to Fear (2022), and Decency Anomaly (2025).
Albuquerque death metal, grindcore, and powerviolence band formed in 2020, named after the HTTP 502 error code and releasing brutal short-form material from the New Mexico underground.
Bad Resilience is a grindcore and noisecore project from São Paulo, Brazil, founded in mid-2024 by musician Rodrigo Chenta. The project fuses diminutive riffs with raw blast-beat grind, drawing lyrical themes from Christian theology — including kenosis, ordinances, and martyrdom — with lyrics in both English and Spanish. Their debut album Mutilated Head (2024) arrived alongside the single Stoning, establishing a deliberately brutal and theologically charged identity.
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