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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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Death metal and grindcore band from Sumperk, Czech Republic, active since 2004. With over two decades of grinding intensity, they deliver chaotic extremity from the northern Moravian mountains.
Death-grind act from Toruń in central Poland, active since 2013. Croque-Mort — French for 'undertaker' — delivers morbid, blast-driven extremity from the medieval Vistula city.
Death-grind act from Sweden, formed in 2021. Crossbow Suicide delivers blast-driven extremity with dark humor.
Death metal and grindcore band from Cantabria, Spain, formed in 2021. They deliver grinding extremity from the northern Spanish coast.
Progressive grindcore act from Malmö, active since 2004. Crowpath has spent two decades pushing grindcore into progressive territory from southern Sweden.
Death metal and grindcore band from Enontekio in Finnish Lapland, active since 2013. They deliver grinding extremity from one of the most remote regions in the Finnish metal scene.
Grindcore act from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2025. Crushgrinder delivers relentless, blast-driven grinding extremity.
Brutal death-grindcore band from Valenciennes in northern France, formed in 2023. They deliver punishing, abrasive extremity from the Nord region.
Death metal and grindcore act from Brno, Czech Republic, formed in 2020. They channel the Moravian capital's rich extreme metal heritage through a blend of grinding blasts and guttural death metal.
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