List of grindcore bands

This is a list of grindcore bands, including bands that perform grindcore fusion genres.

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List

A Abaddon Incarnate[1] Aborted[2] ACxDC[3] Agathocles[4] Agoraphobic Nosebleed[5] Anal Cunt[6] Antidemon[7] Antigama[8] Asesino[9] Assück[10] Autopsy[11] B Benümb[12] The Berzerker[13] Blood Duster[14] Bolt Thrower[15] Brain Drill[16] Brodequin[17] Brujeria[18] Brutal Truth[19] C Caninus[11] Carcass[20][21][22] Carnal Diafragma[23] Cattle Decapitation[21][24] Cephalic Carnage[25] Circle of Dead Children[26] Circle Takes the Square[27] Cock and Ball Torture[17] Converge[28] The County Medical Examiners[29][30] Cripple Bastards[31] D Damaged[32] Dance Club Massacre[33] Daughters[34] Dead Infection[17] Defecation[35] Deny the Cross[36] Despised Icon[37] Devourment[38] The Dillinger Escape Plan[39] Discordance Axis[40] Drumcorps[41] Dying Fetus[42]

E Ed Gein[43] Electro Hippies[44] Exhumed[11] Extreme Noise Terror[45] Extreme Smoke[46] F The Fall of Troy[47] Fantômas[48] Fear Factory[49] Fuck the Facts[50] Full of Hell[51][52][53] G General Surgery[17][54][55] Genghis Tron[56] Glass Casket[57] Godflesh[58] Gore Beyond Necropsy[59] Gridlink[60] Gut[61] Gulch[62] H Haemorrhage[63] Hatebeak[11] Head of David[64] Head Wound City[65] Hellnation[66] Ho99o9[67] Holocausto Canibal[68] Human Remains[69] I Impaled[11] Impending Doom[70] Impetigo[71] In Strict Confidence[72] L Last Days of Humanity[73] Liberteer[74] Lock Up[11][75] The Locust[76][77] M Macabre[78] Magrudergrind[79] Maximum the Hormone[80] Meathook Seed[81] Melt-Banana[82] Metanoia[83] Misery Index[84] Mortician[85] Mortification[86]

N Nails[87] Naked City[88] Napalm Death[89] Nasum[90] Nuclear Blaze[91] The Number Twelve Looks Like You[92][93] O Old Lady Drivers[94] Orchid[95] P Painkiller[96] Phantomsmasher[97] Phobia[98] Pig Destroyer[99] R The Red Chord[100][101] Regurgitate[102] Reversal Of Man[95] Repulsion[103] Rotten Sound[104] S See You Next Tuesday[105][106] Soilent Green[107] Sore Throat[108] Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky[109] T Terrorizer[110] The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza[111] Tortured Conscience[112] To Separate The Flesh From The Bones[113] Totem Skin[114] Trap Them[115] U Unholy Grave[116] United Nations[117] Unseen Terror[118] URGH![119] V Vomitorial Corpulence[120] W War from a Harlots Mouth[121] Wormrot[122] X Xysma[123]

See also

• List of crust punk bands
• List of hardcore punk bands
• List of crossover thrash bands
• List of death metal bands
• List of heavy metal bands
• List of mathcore bands
• List of deathcore bands

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