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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 and grindcore band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2022, whose name simply means 'skin' in French. They deliver raw, stripped-down extremity from the Pink City.
Death metal and grindcore band from Paris, France, formed in 2015, delivering relentless blasts of extreme metal from the French capital. They are part of Paris's active and varied grindcore community.
Grindcore band from Uppsala, Sweden, active since 2002, delivering over two decades of provocatively named extreme grindcore. They are veterans of the Swedish grindcore underground.
Brive-la-Gaillarde's Pervitine channels black metal from the Corrèze department since 2023, named after the methamphetamine brand used by WWII soldiers. Their remote Limousin setting breeds a wired, paranoid intensity befitting their pharmaceutical namesake.
Black metal and goregrind project from Murcia, Spain, formed in 2019, combining the unlikely pairing of black metal atmosphere with goregrind extremity. Their hybrid approach pushes the limits of extreme metal from southeastern Spain.
Death metal and grindcore band from Coburg, Germany, formed in 2007, bringing crude extremity and irreverent energy to the Franconian metal underground. They are a veteran act in the Bavarian grindcore scene.
Goregrind band from Ukraine, formed in 2021, delivering crude, abrasive goregrind. They bring deliberately grotesque extremity to the Ukrainian underground.
Czech death grind band from Vyskov, active since 1998, making them one of the longest-running extreme metal acts in the Czech scene. Their prolific catalog includes releases like Planet of the Pigs and Pig Blood, delivering relentless grindcore and death metal ferocity.
Death metal and grindcore band from Tomsk, Russia, formed in 2021, delivering grotesque extremity from western Siberia. They bring crude sonic violence to the Tomsk underground.
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