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Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cadaveric Depravity deals in the punishing low-end assault of brutal death metal, built around guttural vocals, blast beats, and technical riffwork.
A brutal deathcore band from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Cadaverous Contingency melds the crushing low-end devastation of brutal death metal with the breakdowns and rhythmic aggression of deathcore.
Formed in Santa Ana, California in 2024, Cadaverous Odour takes the splatter and speed of brutal death metal and goregrind and channels it through an intense, blood-soaked sonic attack.
Brutal death metal band active since 2012, named after a Defeated Sanity track, dealing in gore-soaked extremity and relentless violence.
Bakersfield, California slam/brutal death metal band formed in 2024, a new entry in the West Coast extreme metal underground.
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band taking their name from the 1980 horror film and operating in the extreme underground.
Chicago brutal death metal band active from around 2015, trading in gore, horror, and sex imagery within the beatdown-adjacent underground.
Florida/California brutal death and black metal band formed around 2011, pairing punishing dual-genre aggression with science-fiction lyrical themes.
Phoenix, Arizona brutal death metal and goregrind act whose name signals an unflinching commitment to the goriest end of the extreme metal spectrum.
Milwaukee brutal death metal outfit specializing in the genre's most extreme end — gore-drenched lyrics, guttural vocals, and dense, down-tuned riffing executed with surgical precision.
A Massachusetts brutal death and grindcore act born in 2025, trading in the kind of visceral, compressed extremity that sits at the genre's most punishing outer edge.
New York brutal death and slam act formed in 2020, built on the genre's signature down-tuned groove and guttural vocal attack, representing the thriving East Coast slam underground.
Phoenix slam and brutal death metal band serving up the genre's trademark rhythmic heaviness with a desert-baked intensity since 2017, centering on monolithic, pit-ready breakdowns.
Santa Maria brutal death and grindcore act formed in 2021, delivering chaotic, speed-driven extremity that blurs the line between the two genres with short, savage, and unrelenting compositions.
Omaha brutal death metal outfit active since 2018, representing the Midwest underground with dense, punishing riffwork and guttural extremity delivered with workmanlike intensity.
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