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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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Vomiturgy is a death metal/grindcore band from Béziers, France, active since 1996. With nearly three decades of activity, they are one of the more enduring extreme metal acts in the Languedoc underground.
Vulgar Mass is a grindcore band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2023. They deliver chaotic, blast-beat-driven grindcore from the Finnish north.
Vulva Intestines is a death/sludge metal/grindcore band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, active since 2002. They blend the repulsive extremes of grindcore with sludge and death metal's heaviness.
Väestönsuoja is a grindcore/death metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2020. Their name meaning "bomb shelter" in Finnish, they deliver explosive grindcore and death metal.
Grindcore band from Gothenburg, Sweden formed in 2023. Walking Corpse delivers explosive grindcore from Sweden's second city.
Thrash metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland active since 2017, evolving from crossover thrash into grindcore and death metal territory. Wardomized has pushed their sound increasingly extreme while maintaining the aggressive energy of their crossover roots.
Grindcore and death metal band from Lille, France active since 2011. Warscars merges grindcore's blast-beat fury with death metal's guttural extremity from the industrial north.
Grindcore band from Marseille, France formed in 2023. Wave-Collider delivers short, explosive bursts of grindcore fury from the Mediterranean port city.
Death metal and grindcore band from Budapest, Hungary emerging in 2025. Ways of Doom blends death metal's heaviness with grindcore's explosive brevity from the Hungarian capital.
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