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Revengefield is a grindcore/goregrind/death metal project from Germany, formed in 2020. The project channels relentless blast beats and guttural extremity across the spectrum of grind and death metal.
Kyiv death metal and grindcore act formed in 2020, delivering rapid-fire extremity from Ukraine's capital. Their grinding assault combines death metal brutality with grindcore velocity.
Death metal/grindcore band from Dundee, Scotland, formed in 2024. Their approach combines death metal heaviness with grindcore velocity from the Scottish east coast.
Out of Lawrence, Kansas, Rimjob have been weaponizing the grindcore/death metal collision since 2016 with a relentless, economical brutality. Their songs are short, vicious, and deliberately stripped of any pretense — pure aggression delivered at maximum velocity. Despite operating in a college town better known for indie rock, they've built a reputation in underground extreme metal circles for uncompromising nastiness.
Ripped 2 Shreds is a death metal and grindcore band from Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2018. The band brings extreme speed and brutality to the Westphalian university city's underground.
Death metal/grindcore band from Genoa, Italy, formed in 2020. Named after the giant centipede, their approach delivers venomous extreme metal from the Ligurian port city.
Roachwhore crawled out of Kingsport, Tennessee in 2022 with a fixation on the ugliest end of extreme music, blending goregrind's visceral obsession with bodily horror into a grindcore framework that is relentlessly fast and purposefully repulsive. Their sound is short, brutal, and uncompromising — the kind of band that treats a two-minute runtime as generous.
Death metal/goregrind band from Cornwall, England, active since 2016. Their approach delivers visceral extreme metal from England's remote southwestern peninsula.
Rogus is a death metal and grindcore band from Heddesheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, formed in 2012. The band merges death metal heaviness with grindcore velocity from the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region.
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