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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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Danish death metal/grindcore project formed in 2021, unleashing brief, punishing bursts of extreme metal violence. Their sound mines the most savage intersection of death metal and grindcore.
Grindcore band from Samobor near Zagreb, active since 2010 with releases including Grind World Order and Psalms of the Eater God. Their approach delivers the short, frenzied bursts of grinding extremity that define the genre.
Wielding death metal and grindcore as their weapon, this Romanian outfit has been refining their craft since 2023. Their sound hinges on weaponized brevity delivering maximum aggression in minimum time, delivered with brute-force conviction.
Doom/death metal/grindcore band from Berlin, active since 2015 and merging three extreme styles into a volatile, genre-defying blend. Their provocative name matches the confrontational, boundary-pushing nature of their music.
Black/death metal and grindcore act from Athens, formed in 2025 and merging the extremity of death metal and grindcore with black metal's atmospheric menace. Their approach blends multiple strains of extreme music into a unified assault.
Grindcore/goregrind band from Jyvaskyla, formed in 2022 and delivering the most extreme, gory sonic violence central Finland has to offer. Their ironically positive name contrasts with the repulsive intensity of their goregrind.
Veteran Czech grindcore band from Rosice, active since 1999 and delivering decades of punishing, blast-beat-driven extremity. Their longevity in the Czech grindcore underground speaks to an unwavering commitment to the genre's most abrasive impulses.
Slam/brutal death metal and grindcore band from Vantaa, active since 2012 and delivering the most extreme, deliberately offensive sonic violence in the Finnish underground. Their provocative name matches their commitment to pushing boundaries of heaviness.
Death metal/grindcore project from Germany, active since 2016 with a Japanese name meaning "to torment." Their extreme metal draws inspiration from Asian culture while delivering punishing grindcore and death metal.
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