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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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Grindcore band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2007. Their Catalan name meaning septic skull, they deliver abrasive grinding extremity from the Catalan underground.
Death metal and grindcore band from the UK, active since 2012. They deliver chaotic, grinding extremity.
Death-grind act from Moscow, formed in 2024. Cranioclast delivers skull-crushing extremity from the Russian capital.
Rimini-based death metal and grindcore outfit formed in 2018, unleashing grinding blastbeats and guttural brutality from Italy's Adriatic coast. Their punishing sonic assault draws from the tradition of extreme music's most visceral subgenres.
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Legendary Italian grindcore act from Asti, Piedmont, with Bandcamp activity since 2012 but a history stretching back to the early 1990s. Cripple Bastards are one of Italy's most influential and prolific extreme acts.
Death-grind act from Bari in Puglia, formed in 2017. Crisis Benoit blasts through grinding death metal from southern Italy's Adriatic coast.
Crust punk, death metal, and grindcore band from Santander in Cantabria, Spain, active since 2011. They fuse the raw fury of crust with grinding death metal extremity.
Grind-thrash act from Stella Santa Giustina in Savona province, Liguria, formed in 2019. Critical Condition fuses grindcore intensity with thrash metal riffing from the Ligurian hills.
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