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Grindcore band from Bilbao, Spain, featuring Phlegeton of Wormed fame, blending grindcore with crust punk, d-beat, and black metal influences. Their 2020 debut El Camino del Miedo delivers 13 tracks dedicated to those who choose the path of fear, recorded and produced by Phleg at Negative Sphere.
Copenhagen's gore-splattered grindviolence outfit, a four-piece delivering punishing blast beats and low-end distorted sonic terrorism since 2014. Their 2024 album Som Fortjent represents the band's most single-minded and bludgeoning material, recorded at KB's Funhouse and mastered at Dead Rat Studio.
V.I.L. is a death metal/grindcore band from Alcoi, Spain, formed in 2019. They combine death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaotic velocity.
Vacant Coffin is a death metal/grindcore band from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2020. They combine death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaotic brevity.
Vaginal Cassoulet is a brutal death metal/grindcore band from Laval, France, active since 2011. They combine brutal death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaos and a darkly humorous French identity.
Kansas City's Valiant Reason have been grinding and gutting since 2017, fusing death metal's ferocity with grindcore's relentless pace. Short, savage, and surgically brutal — they're one of the Midwest's most punishing outfits.
Vast Slug is a grindcore band from Norwich, England, formed in 2019. They deliver chaotic, blast-beat-driven grindcore from East Anglia.
Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from Dallas.
Vaulting is a technical death metal/grindcore band from Wiesbaden, Germany, active since 2007. They combine grindcore's chaotic brevity with death metal's technical precision for a punishing extreme metal assault.
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