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Actin' Up (2023)
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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Grindcore/black metal crossover from Milan, Italy, active since 2010. Their approach merges grindcore's blasting velocity with black metal's atmospheric hostility.
Ankara grindcore act formed in 2010, delivering blasting extremity with irreverent humor from Turkey's capital. Their rapid-fire sonic assaults channel the confrontational spirit of the grindcore tradition.
Amherst, Massachusetts's Relentless Insurrection have been blending grindcore's maximal speed with thrash metal's riff backbone since 2021, forged in the tight-knit western Massachusetts DIY scene that surrounds the Five Colleges area. The academic-town setting belies a sound that is anything but careful.
Remasculate is a death metal/grindcore band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2013. The band delivers punishing extreme metal that blends death metal brutality with grindcore's relentless speed and intensity.
Repugnance is a death metal and grindcore band from Mieres in Asturias, northern Spain, active since 2014. The band channels extreme aggression from the mining valleys of the Asturian interior.
Repugnant Pigs is a death metal and grindcore band from Malgrat de Mar/Pineda de Mar on the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain, active since 1990. Over three decades of extreme metal make them one of the oldest continuously active grind/death acts in the Catalan underground.
Repugnizer is a death metal and grindcore band from Rennes in Brittany, France, formed in 2017. The band channels extreme aggression from the Breton capital.
Repulse is a death metal and grindcore band from Turku, Finland, active since 1991. Over three decades of extreme music make them one of the longest-running grind/death acts in the Finnish underground.
Seattle's Resistant Culture are one of the more politically charged acts in the American extreme underground, weaving crossover thrash, grindcore, crust punk, and death metal into a multi-genre assault that has carried an indigenous and anti-colonial perspective since 2010. Their music is as ideologically committed as it is sonically relentless — breakneck speeds and D-beat rhythms underscoring protest and resistance. Few bands in the underground carry this kind of conviction across so many subgenres at once.
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