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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Grind-O-Matic is a death metal/grindcore band from Paris, active since 2006. They deliver mechanized, relentless grindcore and death metal from the French capital, their name suggesting the automated precision of their approach.
Grindcore Accesible is a grindcore band split between the Basque Country and Catalonia, featuring members of Ósserp and Mutilated Judge, self-described as 'grindcore for all audiences.' Their 2020 album Para Todos los Públicos delivers eight tracks of groovy goregrind recorded at the Ósserp practice space and mastered in Portugal.
Grindead is a death metal and grindcore outfit from Porto, Portugal, grinding since 2019. They contribute to Porto's thriving extreme metal community with relentless brutality.
Grindeals is a grindcore and death metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed in 2020. The independent act explores lyrical themes of violence, psychological struggle, death, and addiction within a brutal extreme metal framework.
Berdiansk-based brutal death metal and grindcore act active since 2016, delivering grinding extremity from southeastern Ukraine's Azov Sea coast. Their relentless sonic assault combines death metal brutality with grindcore's blistering velocity.
Grindfernö is a grindcore and death metal project from Zaragoza, Spain, formed in 2023 by Avellano and Pablo, who are also active in numerous other bands including Mobcharge, Proyecto Terror, and Kärnvapen Attack. Their releases Numbers and Human Stupidity channel relentless extreme metal energy from deep within the Spanish underground.
Grindflesh is a thrash metal band from La Rochelle on the French Atlantic coast, formed in 2025. They bring high-speed thrash to the Charente-Maritime port city.
Stockholm death/thrash metal and grindcore act launched in 2025, combining the ferocity of multiple extreme subgenres into a relentless sonic barrage. Their grinding assault reflects the newest generation of Swedish extreme music.
Groningen-based four-piece rooted in grindcore, hardcore, sludge, and powerviolence since 2005, navigating across subgenres while maintaining a foundation of blistering extremity. Members later formed the collective Onhou, continuing their impact on northern Netherlands' heavy music landscape.
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