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Resonance Cascade is a grindcore band from Malmö/Osby, Sweden, active since 2014. Operating under the motto 'NO FUN - NO TREND - NO ART - JUST GRIND,' the four-piece delivers straightforward, no-frills grindcore including a split with Järnbörd.
Death-grind band founded in mid-1998 in Manaus, Amazonas, by vocalist Marcos Campos and guitarist Luiz Souza, who relocated to Goiânia, Goiás around 2001 where drummer Sandinho Costa joined the lineup. The band released the debut full-length Agregados Onímodos Malditos in February 2005 through Two Beers Or Not Two Beers Records and Independência Records, recorded at Tokaia Studio in Goiânia, and followed with the EP Morficaos (2009) and the album Mapinguari (2014).
Death metal/grindcore band from Treviso, Italy, active since 2013. Their Spanish name, meaning 'human remains,' accompanies extreme metal from the Veneto town.
Resurrected is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Duisburg in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, active since 1997. Nearly three decades of activity make them one of the veteran acts in the Ruhr area's extreme metal underground.
Boston's Retained Surgical Instrument arrived in 2024 bearing one of extreme metal's most viscerally clinical names, pairing death metal's crushing weight with grindcore's velocity and brevity. Their medical horror conceptual framing is a tradition in goregrind and gore-death, but the name itself is precise enough to feel genuinely unsettling. A new contender in Boston's increasingly active brutal underground.
Death metal and grindcore band from Curitiba, Paraná, whose lineup includes vocalist Larissa Pires, guitarist Felis Possesso, bassist Cristiano Deathreisen, and drummer Leonardo Freitas. The band released their self-titled debut in July 2012, followed by the full-length Decomposição Brutal in July 2016, both available through their Bandcamp page.
Los Angeles' Retch have been trafficking in brutal death metal and goregrind since 2012, occupying the most deliberately repulsive corner of extreme metal's spectrum with conviction and volume. Their roots go back to the earliest goregrind experiments, and their Los Angeles home gives them access to one of the country's most active extreme metal circuits. Uncompromising in the truest sense.
Technical grindcore/death metal band from the Leeds/Bradford area, formed in 2024. Their approach combines grindcore's velocity with death metal's technicality from West Yorkshire.
Grindcore band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2023. Their approach delivers high-velocity extreme music from the Hungarian capital.
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