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• Aborted
  Aborted
  Aborted is a Belgian death metal band formed in Waregem, Belgium in 1995. The group comprises vocalist and founder Sven de Caluwé, guitarists Eran Segal and Mike Wilson, bassist J.B. Van Der Wal, and drummer Ken Bedene. The band members of Aborted are from Belgium, France, Israel, United Kingdom,...
  
  
• Agathocles
  Agathocles (band)
  Agathocles is a Belgian political grindcore band that began in 1985. They are mainly known for producing a large quantity of split seven-inch EPs...
  
  
• Agoraphobic Nosebleed
  Agoraphobic Nosebleed
  Agoraphobic Nosebleed is a grindcore band formed in 1994 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Its line-up has changed often during the years, leaving the only permanent member Scott Hull , also a guitarist in Pig Destroyer...
  
  
• Anal Cunt
  Anal Cunt
  Anal Cunt, also known as AxCx and A.C., was an American grindcore band that formed in Newton, Massachusetts in 1988. Since its inception, the band underwent a number of line-up changes. Known for its grindcore musical style and controversial lyrics, Anal Cunt released eight full-length studio...
  
  
• Antigama
  Antigama
  -Biography:Antigama formed in Warsaw, Poland in 2000 by guitarist Sebastian Rokicki and drummer Krzysztof Bentkowski, later joined by Lukasz Myszkowski on vocals and Macio Moretti on bass guitar. The band soon entered the studio to write and record material. Their first full length album, Intellect...
  
  
• Asesino
  Asesino
  Asesino is an American extreme metal band and the recurring project of ex-Brujeria guitarist Dino Cazares, which has featured members of Brujeria, Fear Factory, Sepultura, Sadistic Intent and Static-X....
  
  
• As I Lay Dying
  As I Lay Dying (band)
  As I Lay Dying is an American metalcore band from San Diego, California. Founded in 2000 by Tim Lambesis and having completed their first Line-up in 2001, the band consists of vocalist Tim Lambesis, drummer Jordan Mancino, lead guitarist Nick Hipa, rhythm guitarist Phil Sgrosso, and bassist Josh...
  
  
• Assück
  Assück
  Assück was an anti-capitalist and anarchist grindcore and deathgrind band from Saint Petersburg Florida, active from 1987 to 1998. The band proved influential, with their album Anticapital voted number 4 in the Terrorizer list of their top 20 US grindcore albums, who described it as a "low-calibre...
  
  
• Autopsy
  Autopsy (band)
  Autopsy is a death metal band, founded in 1987 in the United States by Chris Reifert. They disbanded in 1995, but have reunited as of July 2009.-Biography:...
  
  

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• The Berzerker
  The Berzerker
  The Berzerker was an extreme metal band from Melbourne, Australia and was formed in 1995. The band's music, heavily influenced by older death metal and grindcore, can be characterized as a fusion of these with speedcore, and gabber...
  
  
• Blood Duster
  Blood Duster
  Blood Duster is a extreme metal/stoner rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Their name comes from the song "Blood Duster" by John Zorn, from the 1989 album Naked City.-History:...
  
  
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• Brain Drill
  Brain Drill
  Brain Drill is an American death metal band formed in 2005 from Ben Lomond, California. They are signed to Metal Blade Records and released their full length debut album entitled Apocalyptic Feasting on February 5, 2008...
  
  
• Bring Me the Horizon
  Bring Me the Horizon
  Bring Me the Horizon are a British metalcore band from Sheffield, Yorkshire, who formed in 2004. Bring Me the Horizon constits of Oliver Sykes as the lead vocalist, lead guitarist Lee Malia, rhythm guitarist Jona Weinhofen, bassist Matt Kean and drummer Matt Nicholls...
  
  
• Brodequin
  Brodequin
  Brodequin is a death metal band from Knoxville, Tennessee. Formed in 1998 by brothers Mike and Jamie Bailey, the band has released three full-length albums to date.-The band's music:...
  
  
• Brujeria
  Brujeria (band)
  Brujeria is an extreme metal band formed in Tijuana, Mexico in 1989. Their name comes from the Spanish word for "witchcraft". Their songs, which are sung in Spanish, are focused on Satanism, anti-Christianity, sex, immigration, narcotics smuggling, politics....
  
  
• Brutal Truth
  Brutal Truth
  Brutal Truth is an American grindcore band from New York City, formed by ex-Anthrax, Nuclear Assault, and Stormtroopers Of Death bass guitarist Dan Lilker in 1990. The group disbanded in 1999, but reformed in 2006 and continue to release new music.-History:...
  
  

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• Carcass
  Carcass (band)
  Carcass are an extreme metal band from England, who formed in 1985 and disbanded in 1995. A reunion was enacted in 2008 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen, due to health reasons....
  
  
• Cattle Decapitation
  Cattle Decapitation
  Cattle Decapitation is an American deathgrind band from San Diego, California, formed in 1996.-History:Originally founded in 1996, Cattle Decapitation's songs protest the mistreatment and consumption of animals as well as the abuse of the environment. Lyrics may also focus on subjects such as...
  
  
• Cephalic Carnage
  Cephalic Carnage
  Cephalic Carnage is an American grindcore band formed in 1992 in Denver, Colorado. The band comprises vocalist Lenzig Leal, guitarists Steve Goldberg and Brian Hopp, drummer John Merryman and bassist Nick Schendzielos...
  
  
• Circle of Dead Children
  Circle of Dead Children
  Circle of Dead Children is a deathgrind band formed on October 24, 1998, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania known for being purveyors of pure aural destruction with their claustrophobic, dense take on extreme metal...
  
  
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• Columns
  Columns (band)
  Columns is a death metal/grindcore band from the Winston Salem/Charlotte area of North Carolina, formed in 2004. Vocalist Adam Cody is also the vocalist for Glass Casket. Jason Skipper and Jake Wade are also currently members in the punk band, One Another...
  
  
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• The County Medical Examiners
  The County Medical Examiners
  The County Medical Examiners are an American goregrind and death metal band who, in their own words, exist for the sole purpose of recreating the sound of early Carcass albums. The band is also known to do no live shows at all....
  
  

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• Dahmer
  Dahmer (band)
  Dahmer was a grindcore band formed in Quebec City, Canada in 1995 by Sébastien and Yvan Dionne. They composed songs about serial killers , mass murderers and other various topics, some not even criminal-related and mostly humorous.Though the group split up in early 2000, members are currently...
  
  
• Damaged
  Damaged (band)
  Damaged was an Australian deathgrind band from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia, active from 1989 to 2004.-History:The band was formed by drummer Matt "Skitz" Sanders...
  
  
• Dance Club Massacre
  Dance Club Massacre
  Dance Club Massacre is an American extreme metal band from Chicago, Illinois. Formed in 2004, the group originated as a simple recording project between founding members Nick Seger and Kurt Latos...
  
  
• Daughters
  Daughters (band)
  Daughters is an American grindcore/mathcore/noise rock band formed in 2001 in Providence, Rhode Island after the demise of Providence-based As the Sun Sets. Daughters have four releases including their self-titled EP, Canada Songs LP Hell Songs and last album Daughters . The band has re-released...
  
  
• Dead Infection
  Dead Infection
  Dead Infection is a goregrind band from Poland. Since forming in early 1990, they have released three full-length albums and several split albums and singles. They are the second band from Poland after Vader that made a deal to release a CD/LP with a non-European label. Their second album, A...
  
  
• Defecation
  Defecation (band)
  Defecation is a deathgrind side project formed by Righteous Pigs guitarist Mitch Harris and ex-Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris in 1987. Mitch Harris was the guitarist, bassist and vocalist, and Mick Harris was the drummer and vocalist as well, until Mick left the group shortly after their first...
  
  
• Devourment
  Devourment
  Devourment is a death metal band from Dallas, Texas. Formed in 1995, the band has split up and reformed three times and none of the original members remain. The current lineup is Mike Majewski , Ruben Rosas , Chris "Captain Piss" Andrews and Eric Park...
  
  
• Discordance Axis
  Discordance Axis
  Discordance Axis was a grindcore band from East Brunswick, New Jersey.-Biography:Frontman Jon Chang on the history of the band:"Discordance Axis was a three piece grind core band that started in NJ around 1992. The band started after myself and Rob's previous band disintegrated and we found Da5e at...
  
  
• Dying Fetus
  Dying Fetus
  Dying Fetus is an American death metal band from Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Formed in 1991, the group is known for their outspoken political views, and for being one of the few death metal bands who follow a political nature. Earlier lyrics showcased the common death metal trait of explicit violence...
  
  

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• Ed Gein
  Ed Gein (band)
  Ed Gein is a political grindcore band from Syracuse, NY, named after American killer, Ed Gein.Each of the members perform vocals equally; there is no lead vocalist...
  
  
• Electro Hippies
  Electro Hippies
  Electro Hippies was a crust punk/thrashcore band formed in St Helens/Wigan, United Kingdom, in 1985.Though they were short-lived and underground through their career, their music influenced many future crust, hardcore punk, and grindcore bands. The band relied heavily on low bass end sounds to...
  
  
• Exhumed
  Exhumed (band)
  Exhumed is an American death metal band from San Jose, California, most recently signed to Relapse Records. They were formed in 1990, when sole remaining founding member Matt Harvey was at the age of 15. Exhumed spent much of the ensuing decade hacking its way through numerous demos, split CDs,...
  
  
• Extreme Noise Terror
  Extreme Noise Terror
  Extreme Noise Terror are a British crust punk / grindcore band originally formed in Ipswich, England in 1985. The band are widely considered one of the earliest and most influential European grindcore bands, and particularly the forefathers of the crustgrind subgenre.Notable for one of the...
  
  
• Extreme Smoke
  Extreme Smoke
  Extreme Smoke was the first noise/grindcore band from Slovenia. The band was formed in the beginning of 1990, in the city of Nova Gorica. Two band members occasionally played for Croatian noisecore band Patareni...
  
  

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• General Surgery
  General Surgery (band)
  General Surgery is a Swedish goregrind group, known as one of the earliest Carcass clones. Their 1991 debut, Necrology, was released by Relapse Records and would be General Surgery's only material released until 2001, when the group recorded one track for the Carcass tribute album, Requiems of...
  
  
• Genghis Tron
  Genghis Tron
  Genghis Tron is a three-piece experimental metal band formed in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York and San Francisco, California. Genghis Tron signed to Relapse Records after releasing two recordings on Crucial Blast. The band is noted for its creative...
  
  
• Godflesh
  Godflesh
  Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham, England. Originally known as Fall of Because, they formed in 1988 by Justin K. Broadrick and G.C. Green and disbanded in 2002. Godflesh's innovative music is widely regarded as a foundational influence on industrial metal and post-metal...
  
  
• Gore Beyond Necropsy
  Gore Beyond Necropsy
  Gore Beyond Necropsy formed in 1989 in Hadano-City, Kanagawa, Japan. The group have had a prolific output of releases. They play a hybrid style of chaotic grindcore/noisegrind which they refer to as "Analdrillinggrind Harshit Core!!"....
  
  
• Gut
  GUT (band)
  Gut is a German grindcore band, often credited as fathers of pornogrind, and known for their over-the-top vocals and morbid, pornographic imagery. Natalie Purcell, in her book Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture, suggests that pornogrind is defined solely on the basis of its...
  
  

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• Head Wound City
  Head Wound City
  Head Wound City is an American noisegrind supergroup consisting of Jordan Blilie and Cody Votolato of The Blood Brothers, Nick Zinner from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Justin Pearson and Gabe Serbian, both from The Locust and Holy Molar...
  
  
• Haemorrhage
  Haemorrhage (band)
  Haemorrhage is a five-piece goregrind band from Madrid, Spain.Formed in 1990 as Devourment, Haemorrhage began its life as a trio, with Jose on bass and vocals, Luisma on guitar, and Emilio on drums, though this only lasted until the summer of 1991, when Emilio left the band...
  
  
• Hatebeak
  Hatebeak
  Hatebeak is a death metal band, formed by Blake Harrison, Mark Sloan and Waldo, a 19 year old Congo African Grey Parrot. The band members do not use their last names on their releases "for the mystery." Hatebeak is unique in that they are the only band to feature a parrot on vocals...
  
  
• Hate Eternal
  Hate Eternal
  -Biography:Hate Eternal was formed in 1997. The group's original line-up included Erik Rutan - guitars/vocals, bassist and co-vocalist Jared Anderson, drummer Tim Yeung, and guitarist Doug Cerrito of the band Suffocation...
  
  

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• Macabre
  Macabre (band)
  Macabre is an extreme metal band from Illinois. They were formed in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois, and have never had a line-up change. They blend thrash metal, death metal, and grindcore to form their own unique style dubbed murder metal...
  
  
• Meathook Seed
  Meathook Seed
  Meathook Seed was an industrial metal project formed in 1992 by Napalm Death guitarist Mitch Harris.Since its founding, two Meathook Seed albums were released.-Embedded:...
  
  
• Misery Index
  Misery Index (band)
  Misery Index is an American deathgrind band formed in 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, by Jason Netherton on vocals and bass guitar, Mike Harrison on vocals and guitar, and Kevin Talley on drums. From 2006-2010, its line-up consisted of Netherton on vocals and bass guitar, Sparky Voyles...
  
  
• Mortician
  Mortician (band)
  Mortician is a death metal / deathgrind two piece band from Yonkers, New York founded in 1989. They have released most of their albums since the House by the Cemetery EP on Relapse Records but have released their latest album on their own label, Mortician Records. They have toured several times...
  
  
• Mortification
  Mortification (band)
  Mortification is an Australian Christian extreme metal band which was formed in 1987 as a heavy metal group, Lightforce, by mainstay Steve Rowe on bass guitar and vocals. By 1990, in the Melbourne suburb of Moorabbin, they were renamed as Mortification with the line-up of Rowe, Michael Carlisle on...
  
  

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• Naked City
  Naked City (band)
  Naked City was an avant-garde music group led by saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Active primarily in New York City from 1988 to 1993, Naked City was initiated by Zorn as a "composition workshop" to test the limits of composition in a traditional rock band lineup...
  
  
• Napalm Death
  Napalm Death
  Napalm Death are a death metal band formed in Birmingham, England in 1981. While none of its original members remain in the group, the lineup of vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway, bassist Shane Embury, guitarist Mitch Harris and drummer Danny Herrera has remained consistent for most of the band's ...
  
  
• Nasum
  Nasum
  Nasum was a political Swedish band that played a mixture of grindcore and death metal. The band's name, meaning 'nose', was taken from the horror film Flesh for Frankenstein.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Number Twelve Looks Like You
  The Number Twelve Looks Like You
  The Number Twelve Looks Like You was a mathcore band from Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Their music combined elements of grindcore, progressive metal, hardcore punk and jazz...
  
  

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• Painkiller
  Painkiller (band)
  Painkiller is a band originally formed in 1991. Their style can be described as a mix of avant-garde jazz and grindcore; later albums also incorporated elements of ambient and dub....
  
  
• Pathologist
  Pathologist (band)
  Pathologist was a Czech grindcore band from Ostrava, formed in 1990.-Line-up:*Martin "Cyklo" Cvilink — vocals*Daniel "Hary" Harok — guitars*Tom K. Miller — bass*Stanislav "Stanley" Mazur — drums-Discography:...
  
  
• Phantomsmasher
  Phantomsmasher
  Phantomsmasher is an experimental grindcore/electronic band led by musician James Plotkin, previously known as Atomsmasher.The band signed to Ipecac Recordings in 2002, and is reportedly currently working on a third album.-Members:...
  
  
• Phobia
  Phobia (band)
  Phobia is a Grindcore band from Orange County, California. The band was formed in 1990 and is heavily influenced by crust punk and grindcore. Their lyrical content focuses mainly on socio-political issues and left-wing politics.- History :...
  
  
• Pig Destroyer
  Pig Destroyer
  -Biography:The band formed in 1997 with vocalist J. R. Hayes , guitarist Scott Hull , and drummer John Evans. Evans was later replaced by Brian Harvey...
  
  
• Prostitute Disfigurement
  Prostitute Disfigurement
  - Biography :Prostitute Disfigurement started out as a 3-piece near the end of 2000, under the name of Disfigure. They were joined by Roel van Kruysdijk on guitars, just before making their demo recordings...
  
  

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• The Red Chord
  The Red Chord
  The Red Chord is an American grindcore band from Revere, Massachusetts, formed in 1999. The band is made up of vocalist Guy Kozowyk, guitarist Mike "Gunface" McKenzie, and bassist Greg Weeks. The band gained a fanbase with its 2002 debut album Fused Together in Revolving Doors. The second album,...
  
  
• Regurgitate
  Regurgitate (band)
  Regurgitate is a goregrind band from Sweden.In 2001, Bizarre Leprous Productions released a 46-band tribute to Regurgitate entitled Comeback of Goregods: Tribute to Regurgitate, with bands such as Inhume, Lymphatic Phlegm, Gore Beyond Necropsy, Haemorrhage, and Neuro-Visceral Exhumation taking...
  
  
• Repulsion
  Repulsion (band)
  Repulsion is an early grindcore / death metal band from Flint, Michigan. They have been called the "most influential grindcore band of all time".-History:...
  
  
• Rotten Sound
  Rotten Sound
  Rotten Sound is a grindcore band from Vaasa, Finland, formed in 1993. The band comprises vocalist Keijo Niinimaa, guitarist Mika Aalto, bassist Kristian Toivainen and drummer Sami Latva...
  
  

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• See You Next Tuesday
  See You Next Tuesday (band)
  See You Next Tuesday is a deathcore band from Bay City, Michigan. They are currently signed to Ferret Records, an independent record label based in New Brunswick, New Jersey.-History:...
  
  
• Skinless
  Skinless
  Skinless is a death metal band that was formed in 1992 and disbanded in 2011.-History:Skinless was formed by Ryan Wade and Noah Carpenter in the town of South Glens Falls, New York...
  
  
• SOB
  S.O.B. (band)
  S.O.B., also known as SxOxBx, is an early, seminal hardcore punk and grindcore band from Japan. Their band name is an acronym for S.O.B., also known as SxOxBx, is an early, seminal [[hardcore punk]] and [[grindcore]] band from [[Japan]]...
  
  
• Sore Throat
  Sore Throat
  Sore Throat were a British crust punk / grindcore band, formed in Yorkshire in 1987. They are known for being one of the earliest exponents of the grindcore subgenre known as "noisecore", as well launching the careers of several prominent members of the British metal community.-Biography:Sore...
  
  
• Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky
  Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky
  Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky is an American extreme metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed in 2006. The group was founded by guitarists Aaron Haines and Ian Sturgill, shortly after the disbandment of their previous band, Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus. The band's name is...