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D.L.M. is a grindcore band from Não-Me-Toque, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2019 and active in the country's underground extreme music scene. The band channels anti-fascist and politically critical themes through their grindcore sound, operating as an independent act in the broader tradition of Brazilian grindcore.
D.T.W. is a death metal and grindcore band from Nova Gorica, Slovenia, formed in 2018. The project delivers savage grinding death metal from the Italian border.
Unhinged Grindcore from Brownsville/Mission/Edinburg.
Dahmer Disposal is a crust and noise-fueled grindcore trio from Montevecchio in southern Sardinia, featuring Jolly Roger on guitar and vocals, Plinio on drums, and Memetron on bass. Their releases, including the Crust In Piss 7-inch and a split with Virosis, deliver confrontational, abrasive blasts of noise-drenched extremity.
Saint Paul's Daigoro tear through the intersection of death metal brutality and grindcore velocity with thrash-sharpened riffs that refuse to let up. Formed in 2017, they bring a frantic, no-frills aggression to the Twin Cities underground.
Rochester's Damn Chili serve up goregrind and brutal death metal with the kind of absurdist irreverence the subgenre demands, fusing surgical heaviness with gleeful grotesquery since 2008. They lean fully into the nastier end of the underground, with no apologies.
Damn Nation plays death metal and grindcore from Lille in northern France, formed in 2025 and delivering rapid-fire extremity from the industrial heart of French Flanders. Their damning name channels righteous fury into microsecond bursts of sonic violence.
Formed in Delaware in 2020, Damnations Domain weaponizes the abrasive collision of death metal and grindcore, packaging maximum brutality into short, punishing blasts. No atmosphere, no mercy — just feral sonic destruction.
Hailing from Menifee, California, Damnum sculpt atmospheric black metal that trades in grief and grandeur in equal measure, letting melancholy melodies ripple beneath a fog of dissonance. The project has been releasing emotionally charged work since its 2019 formation.
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