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Say The Phrase (2022)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Featured Groove Metal Album
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Death metal and grindcore act from Graz, Austria, formed in 2018. They deliver a punishing blend of guttural death metal with the relentless speed and brevity characteristic of grindcore.
Death metal and grindcore band from Slagelse, Denmark, active since 2012. They deliver a fierce blend of death metal brutality and grindcore velocity.
Carnal Atrocity is a death metal/grindcore duo from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2020 and comprising Karine Campanille (vocals, guitar, bass, synths) and Emiliano Borges (drums). The band released their debut album "Degenerescência" in June 2020, recorded at Estúdio Mitra and mixed at Crossroads Studio in São José dos Campos, São Paulo.
Goregrind band from Ostrava, Czech Republic, founded in 1997. Still active after over 25 years, Carnal Diafragma's prolific output includes the 2024 album The Garden of Earthly Delights, maintaining their signature brand of grotesque extremity.
Death metal and grindcore band from Liverpool, England, formed in 2023. They deliver filthy, grinding extremity from the Merseyside city.
Death metal and grindcore band from Seinajoki, Finland, formed in 2015. They deliver a fierce blend of death metal brutality and grindcore velocity from the Ostrobothnian plains.
Hinesville, Georgia grinders fusing the blunt trauma of death metal with the velocity and aggression of grindcore since 2012, built on relentless speed and concise, punishing song structures.
Technical death metal and grindcore act from Kristiansand, southern Norway, active since 2012. Carnassial — named after the shearing teeth of predators — delivers precise, technically demanding extremity.
Brutal death-grindcore band from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, formed in 2015. They deliver punishing extremity from Northern Ireland.
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