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Ruthless Slam / Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore from Houston.

Sterilized is a slam/brutal death metal band from San Diego, California, formed in 2020. They specialize in the genre's most extreme subdivisions, delivering the grinding breakdowns and guttural intensity characteristic of West Coast slam death metal.

Portland, Maine brutal death metal band formed in 2020, pursuing relentless sonic extremity through blast-beat-driven arrangements and guttural low-end savagery.

American slam and brutal death metal project active since 2019, specializing in the subgenre's signature low-register, percussive breakdowns and grotesque sonic extremity.

San Diego, California brutal death metal band formed in 2019, delivering the hyper-blasting percussion, guttural vocals, and dense, down-tuned riffing central to the brutal death metal style.

Gilbert, Arizona goregrind and brutal death metal outfit formed in 2025, combining the frenzied extremity of goregrind with the crushing density of brutal death metal.

Farmington, Minnesota thrash and groove metal act formed in 2021, blending the rhythmic punch of groove metal with classic thrash aggression to produce heavy, head-banging material.

Denver, Colorado brutal death metal band formed in 2023, delivering the hyper-technical riffing, guttural vocals, and percussive brutality at the core of the brutal death metal style.

New Hampshire slam and brutal death metal band formed in 2025, embracing the genre's signature down-tuned guitars, guttural vocals, and rhythmically punishing breakdowns.
Brutal death metal band from Garrett, Indiana, formed in 2013, delivering relentless, technically driven extremity within the brutal death metal tradition.

Brutal death metal band from Ecorse, Michigan, formed in 2022, delivering pulverizing extremity in the vein of the Midwest's tradition of uncompromising underground brutality.

San Diego brutal death metal band formed in 2023, adding to Southern California's thriving extreme metal underground with punishing low-end heaviness and unrelenting aggression.

Succor is a brutal death metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2025, unleashing dense, punishing heaviness in the tradition of the Pacific Northwest's vibrant underground death metal scene.

Succubus is an Atlanta, Georgia band formed in 2017 that moves between ambient black metal and brutal death metal/deathcore, creating a jarring contrast between oppressive atmosphere and outright sonic violence.

Indiana brutal death metal and slam act formed in 2017, merging the pummeling groove of slam death metal with hardcore aggression for a particularly visceral form of extreme music.
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