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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Chicago's Vindicta arrived in 2021 swinging across black metal, death metal, and grindcore in a way that refuses to settle — brutally fast passages bleed into cold, malevolent atmosphere and back again without warning. The band embodies the confrontational ethos of the city's extreme underground, compressing maximum hostility into a minimum of wasted space.
Protvino's Virgins Blood of Cachtice, named after the legend of the Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory, delivers a multi-genre assault spanning black metal, death metal, grindcore, and melodic death metal. Their willingness to blend so many extreme subgenres creates a chaotic, unpredictable sound rooted in historical horror.
Boston's Virulence stands apart in the death-grind landscape by incorporating jazz-influenced harmonic thinking into an otherwise ferocious framework — an approach that creates unexpected tension between structure and chaos. Founded in 2022, they occupy a niche in the city's storied extreme metal scene that is entirely their own, making even the most dissonant passages feel intentional.
Virulent Life is a death metal/grindcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2021. They combine death metal's crushing heaviness with grindcore's furious velocity.
Estombar's Visceral grinds through a punishing hybrid of death metal and grindcore from the sun-baked Algarve region. Their short, explosive compositions pair guttural brutality with blast-driven fury in the tradition of early Carcass and Napalm Death.
Visceral Carnage is a goregrind band from Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France, active since 2005. They deliver graphic, visceral goregrind from the Vosges mountains.
Columbus, Ohio grindcore and death metal band formed in 2016, fusing the genre's velocity and crust punk's anarchic rawness with death metal's low-end devastation. Rooted in Columbus's scrappy DIY underground, Voice of Crows produce music with both political sharpness and physical force, treating brevity and brutality as equally essential tools.
Voice of Hate is a death metal/grindcore band from Torrent, Spain, active since 2003. With over two decades of activity, they are one of the more established extreme metal acts in the Valencian underground.
Voice of Reason is a brutal death metal/grindcore band from Paris, France, formed in 2017. They deliver punishing extreme metal combining brutal death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaotic velocity.
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