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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 act from Graz, Austria, formed in 2018. They deliver a punishing blend of guttural death metal with the relentless speed and brevity characteristic of grindcore.
Death metal and grindcore band from Slagelse, Denmark, active since 2012. They deliver a fierce blend of death metal brutality and grindcore velocity.
Goregrind band from Ostrava, Czech Republic, founded in 1997. Still active after over 25 years, Carnal Diafragma's prolific output includes the 2024 album The Garden of Earthly Delights, maintaining their signature brand of grotesque extremity.
Death metal and grindcore band from Liverpool, England, formed in 2023. They deliver filthy, grinding extremity from the Merseyside city.
Death metal and grindcore band from Seinajoki, Finland, formed in 2015. They deliver a fierce blend of death metal brutality and grindcore velocity from the Ostrobothnian plains.
Technical death metal and grindcore act from Kristiansand, southern Norway, active since 2012. Carnassial — named after the shearing teeth of predators — delivers precise, technically demanding extremity.
Brutal death-grindcore band from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, formed in 2015. They deliver punishing extremity from Northern Ireland.
Death-grind act from Quartu Sant'Elena near Cagliari, Sardinia, formed in 2019. Carne Guasta — Italian for 'rotten meat' — delivers grinding extremity from the Mediterranean island.
Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Spain, formed in 2019. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity through a blend of brutal death and grinding chaos.
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