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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Phobia is a grindcore band from Orange County, California, formed in 1990 and one of the longer-lived American acts in the genre. Operating in the tradition of crust punk and grindcore with explicitly socio-political and anarchist lyrical content, the band released albums across labels including Slap-a-Ham, Willowtip, Relapse, and Deep Six Records, with Means of Existence (1998), Serenity Through Pain (2001), and Cruel (2006) among their key releases. Their sound adheres to blastbeat-driven grindcore orthodoxy, distinguished by consistent political conviction rather than genre experimentation.
Grindcore and death metal band from Ankara, Turkey, formed in 2015, named after the chemical warfare agent phosgene. A decade of toxic grindcore from the Turkish capital.
Goregrind band from Ukraine, formed in 2021, delivering crude, abrasive goregrind. They bring deliberately grotesque extremity to the Ukrainian underground.
Alexandria, Virginia's Pig Destroyer are one of American grindcore's most uncompromising forces — Scott Hull's guitar work and J.R. Hayes' literary brutality have defined the genre's outer limits for over two decades.
Czech death grind band from Vyskov, active since 1998, making them one of the longest-running extreme metal acts in the Czech scene. Their prolific catalog includes releases like Planet of the Pigs and Pig Blood, delivering relentless grindcore and death metal ferocity.
Death metal and grindcore band from Tomsk, Russia, formed in 2021, delivering grotesque extremity from western Siberia. They bring crude sonic violence to the Tomsk underground.
Brutal death metal and goregrind band from Zalau, Romania, formed in 2013, delivering medically themed extremity from the Salaj region. Over a decade of grotesque sonic violence from northwestern Romania.
Death metal, grindcore, and noise band from Selyatino, Russia, active since 2005, delivering two decades of filthy, noise-laden extreme metal from the Moscow Oblast. They are veterans of the Russian underground.
Goregrind act from Zliv and Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, formed in 2008, wallowing in the grotesque extremity that defines the goregrind subgenre. They bring deliberately over-the-top sonic brutality to the Czech grindcore scene.
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