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Infinite Terror (2024)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Headcrash is a grindcore act from Eindhoven, Netherlands, active since 2014 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
Headless Dawn is a grindcore/death metal band from Netherlands, active since 2022 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Heavy Merda is a thrash metal/crossover, grindcore act from Italy, active since 2025 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
Death metal/grindcore band from Brunswick, Germany, active since 2015. Their relentless blast of brutality and grind delivers extreme music from the Lion City of Lower Saxony.
Operating from Szczecin, this death metal/grindcore project has been shaping grim sound since 2018. Cavernous production and rhythmic complexity define their death metal approach.
German extreme metal project formed in 2025, evolving through multiple stylistic phases from noisecore through black/death metal and grindcore. Their restless genre-hopping reflects an uncompromising, boundary-defying approach to extreme music.
Helvetes Jävla Skit is a grindcore/death metal band from Lund, Sweden, active since 2020 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Hematogen is a grindcore/brutal death metal band from Yelizovo, Russia, active since 2018 and dealing in the most extreme and guttural forms of death metal. The project channels punishing brutality with unrelenting intensity.
Death metal/grindcore band from Biscay, Spain, formed in 2024. Their ferocious blast of brutality and grind erupts from the Basque Country's Atlantic coast.
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