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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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V.I.L. is a death metal/grindcore band from Alcoi, Spain, formed in 2019. They combine death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaotic velocity.
Vacant Coffin is a death metal/grindcore band from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2020. They combine death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaotic brevity.
Vaginal Cassoulet is a brutal death metal/grindcore band from Laval, France, active since 2011. They combine brutal death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaos and a darkly humorous French identity.
Vast Slug is a grindcore band from Norwich, England, formed in 2019. They deliver chaotic, blast-beat-driven grindcore from East Anglia.
Vaulting is a technical death metal/grindcore band from Wiesbaden, Germany, active since 2007. They combine grindcore's chaotic brevity with death metal's technical precision for a punishing extreme metal assault.
Bielsko-Biala's Verminking grinds through a punishing fusion of death metal and grindcore, delivering short, explosive bursts of brutality. Their relentless blasting and guttural vocals channel the intensity of Nasum and Brutal Truth.
Vicious Bastard is a grindcore band from Stourbridge, England, formed in 2019. They deliver chaotic, violent grindcore from the West Midlands.
Swedish act Vider merges black metal, death metal, and grindcore into a volatile, genre-defying cocktail of extremity. Their unpredictable compositions shift between blast-driven fury and grinding aggression with reckless abandon.
Vile Disgust is a death metal/grindcore band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2009. They combine death metal's brutality with grindcore's chaotic intensity.
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