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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Bristol-based deathcore act active since 2004, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Manchester-based grindcore/powerviolence outfit active since 2025, dealing in short, violent compositions that careen between blasting speed and crushing slow sections. Their confrontational approach strips heavy music to its most aggressive core.
Ryazan-based goregrind outfit active since 2015, 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 metal and grindcore band from Gierle, Belgium, active since 2015. They combine death metal's guttural brutality with grindcore's frantic blast-beat intensity.
Finnish death metal and grindcore band from Nurmes in eastern Finland, formed in 2014. They deliver butchered death-grind from the remote Karelian countryside.
Komotini-based thrash metal act active since 2020, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Greek filter.
Punishing brutal death metal from Perm, formed in 2014. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
German death metal band from Darmstadt, formed in 2010, whose sound evolved from death metal/grindcore toward brutal death metal. Their increasingly extreme trajectory reflects a deepening commitment to sonic violence.
Death-grind act from Bielsko-Biała, Poland, active since 2010. C-4 — named after the explosive — delivers blast-driven grindcore from southern Silesia.
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