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Alien's Purger is a grindcore/death metal band from Ouro Branco, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in May 2021 by guitarist Marcão Mamute, vocalist Daniel Índio, and drummer Ildegrind. Their debut full-length "The Korotian's Saga" (2023), released via The Hills Are Dead Records, is a 20-track, 25-minute concept album built around the band's signature themes of aliens and cigars — absurdist subject matter delivered with blasting, no-frills grindcore brutality. The record was engineered and mixed by Bruno Bassani, who also contributed additional instrumentation to the recording.
Alienacja has evolved through multiple extreme phases — from crust and grindcore through death metal into deathcore — from Płock in Masovia since 2014. Their Polish name meaning 'alienation' captures the estrangement at the core of their ever-shifting sound.
Alone with Whores is a black metal/grindcore band from Catanduva, São Paulo, formed in 2023 and released on the local D.I.Y. imprint Podreira Records. Their self-titled 2023 EP blends the abrasive speed of grindcore with black metal rawness, representing the underground noise scene of the interior of São Paulo state.
Fort Wayne, Indiana grindcore project. The name's political overtones channel contemporary American rage through extreme music.
Althru is an experimental grindcore and death metal side project from Hamburg, Germany, formed by two-thirds of the band dxtxpxcxoxlxox, featuring A. on guitar, bass, taglharpa, and throat singing, N. on vocals and synth, and E. on drums. Their 2024 EP Nidar Effigy packs seven tracks into roughly twelve minutes of chaotic, dissonant extremity that blends avant-garde instrumentation with brutal death metal intensity.
Sacramento grindcore project. The Latin root of 'hallucinate' channels delirium through grinding California aggression.
Devastating Brutal Death Metal / Goregrind out of Texas.
Minneapolis death metal and grindcore hybrid that emerged in 2010 with the Fear & Coercion EP. The band fuses blistering speed with metalcore breakdowns, drawing from the Twin Cities' long tradition of extreme music.
Ameaça Nuclear — Portuguese for "Nuclear Threat" — was a death metal and grindcore band from São Paulo, Brazil, active from 2020 until their split. The band operated in the tradition of São Paulo's brutal underground extreme metal scene, blending the raw aggression of grindcore with death metal's heavier structures. Their Bandcamp presence documents their brief but intense run in the city's tightly knit extreme metal circuit.
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