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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Olsztyn-based grindcore outfit active since 2018, delivering ferocious blasts of fury that leave no room for conventional song structures. Their compositions compress maximum aggression into minimal running times.
Finnish death/thrash metal and grindcore band from Tampere, active since 2008. With nearly two decades of friendship-forged extremity, they deliver death-grind with tongue-in-cheek camaraderie.
Grindcore act from Lisbon, formed in 2019. Their music exists in a state of perpetual detonation, packing blast beats and screamed vocals into compositions that rarely exceed the two-minute mark.
Ufa-based death metal/grindcore outfit active since 2016, blasting through short, ferocious compositions that marry death metal's low-end churn with grindcore's frenetic speed. Their music operates at maximum intensity with minimal patience for subtlety.
Spanish death metal and grindcore band from San Juan de la Rambla on Tenerife, formed in 2013. They deliver psychedelic-tinged death-grind from the volcanic Canary Islands.
Death-grind act from Rome, formed in 2013. Their approach strips away anything that does not serve the cause of sheer aggression, delivering sub-two-minute salvos of blast beats and guttural fury.
Arruda dos Vinhos-based death metal/grindcore outfit active since 2013, blasting through short, ferocious compositions that marry death metal's low-end churn with grindcore's frenetic speed. Their music operates at maximum intensity with minimal patience for subtlety.
Solo sesh grind project from Leeds, created by James Purple of Cranial Discharge in 2018. The debut Lords of the Sesh delivers six tracks of chaotic goregrind and slam with deliberately absurdist, party-fuelled humor and unintelligible vocals.
French death metal and grindcore band from Lyon, formed in 2013. They deliver serial-killer-themed death-grind from France's gastronomic capital.
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