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Undercover Scumbag (2018)
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A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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Rectal Devastation is a slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band from West Yorkshire, England, active since 2011. The band delivers extreme slam and goregrind from the industrial north.
Goregrind band from Bydgoszcz, Poland, formed in 2025. Their deliberately crude name accompanies extreme goregrind from the Kuyavian-Pomeranian city.
Rectal Implosion is a technical/brutal death metal band from Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, formed in 2014. The band delivers precision brutality from the major city of northern England.
Goregrind and brutal death metal band from Naaldwijk, the Netherlands, with roots dating to 2004. Two decades of deliberately grotesque extreme metal from the South Holland greenhouse district.
Kyiv death metal and grindcore act formed in 2020, delivering rapid-fire extremity with characteristically irreverent naming from Ukraine's capital. Their grinding assault channels the most punishing qualities of both genres.
Rectal Terror is a brutal deathcore act from Minsk, Belarus, emerging in 2025 as part of the city's growing extreme metal underground. The project channels punishing breakdowns and guttural vocals characteristic of the genre's most uncompromising strain.
Nashville's Rectal Ventriloquist have been weaponizing the blunt end of deathcore since 2020, taking the genre's penchant for grotesque imagery and pairing it with death metal's brutality in a city better known for country music than gutted breakdowns. The contrast is part of the point.
Metalcore band from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, formed in 2022. Their approach delivers rhythmic, breakdown-heavy metalcore from the Dutch capital.
Recusant is a melodic death metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2024. The band brings fresh energy to the Swedish melodic death metal tradition with aggressive yet hook-laden compositions.
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