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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Death-grind act from Glasgow, formed in 2023. Their approach strips away anything that does not serve the cause of sheer aggression, delivering sub-two-minute salvos of blast beats and guttural fury.
French death metal and grindcore band from Nancy and Marbache, formed in 2012. They deliver headbashing death-grind from the Lorraine region.
German death metal and grindcore band from Speyer, formed in 2012. They deliver relentless blasts of death-grind extremity from the Palatinate.
Szeged-based goregrind outfit active since 2022, reveling in pitchshifted gurgles, blast beats, and medically-themed depravity. Their short, violent compositions waste no time on niceties, delivering maximum grotesquery in minimum time.
Death-grind act from Hollandscheveld, formed in 2016. Their approach strips away anything that does not serve the cause of sheer aggression, delivering sub-two-minute salvos of blast beats and guttural fury.
German grindcore band from Schneeberg in Saxony, active since 2009. They deliver explosive, unrelenting grindcore from the Erzgebirge mountain region.
Death-grind act from Milan, formed in 2012. Their approach strips away anything that does not serve the cause of sheer aggression, delivering sub-two-minute salvos of blast beats and guttural fury.
German death metal and grindcore band from Essen, active since 2006. They bring nearly two decades of death-grind ferocity to the Ruhr Valley underground.
German death metal and grindcore band from Dingolfing in Lower Bavaria, active since 2009. They blast through death-grind extremity from the rural Bavarian heartland.
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