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Featured Album
Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Death metal/grindcore/deathcore band from Tuttlingen in Baden-Wurttemberg, formed in 2024 and delivering a triple-threat of extreme metal subgenres. Their provocative Swabian dialect name signals an irreverent approach to brutal music.
Death metal/grindcore band from Vaasa in Ostrobothnia, formed in 2023 with a Finnish name meaning "nausea" or "disgust." Their revolting theme channels visceral revulsion through punishing extreme metal.
Death metal and grindcore band from Thessaloniki, active since 2010 and dealing in the extreme aggression where death metal's guttural heaviness meets grindcore's frenzied velocity. Their longevity in the Thessaloniki scene reflects a committed approach to extreme music.
Death metal and grindcore outfit from the Bolbec/Le Havre/Rouen corridor in Normandy, France, formed in 2024. The band merges grinding blast-beat intensity with guttural death metal savagery in the tradition of classic grind/death crossover.
Parisian goregrind outfit formed in 2010, delivering short, frenzied bursts of grinding extremity rooted in the genre's lo-fi, splatter-obsessed traditions. Their approach favors raw, unpolished blasts of noise over technical refinement.
Grindcore/crust punk project from Spain, formed in 2023 and delivering brief, punishing bursts of extreme sonic violence. Their cadaverous name signals the rotting, decomposed aesthetic of their grinding assault.
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