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Smoldering Torso is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Santa Venetia, California, formed in 2022, delivering relentlessly savage music that combines grindcore's speed and brevity with the gut-punching brutality of BDMG extremity.

Albuquerque brutal death metal and grindcore act formed in 2020, delivering relentlessly punishing extremity rooted in the Southwest underground scene.

San Francisco band founded in 2020 that fuses brutal death metal with hardcore aggression, channeling the Bay Area's long tradition of punishing crossover extremity.
Newark, Delaware brutal death metal and deathcore band formed in 2016, whose unassuming name belies a crushing sonic attack rooted in the extremity of East Coast underground death metal.

Solid Feces is a brutal death metal band from Austin, Texas, formed in 2021, delivering the punishing low-end heaviness, guttural vocals, and blastbeat-driven extremity characteristic of the brutal death metal subgenre.

Solidification is a brutal death metal band from Dayton, Ohio, formed in 2004, bringing over two decades of grinding, technically dense extreme metal to the Midwest underground scene.

Solipcyst is a brutal death metal band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 2023, channeling the hyper-aggressive, clinically precise aesthetic of the brutal death metal underground into the Twin Cities extreme music scene.

Solipsist is a brutal death metal band from Livermore, California, formed in 2007, delivering the punishing technical heaviness of the brutal death metal subgenre from the Bay Area underground.

Sons of Chaos is a technical brutal death metal band from Vacaville, California, formed in 2012, delivering punishing, precision-driven extremity rooted in the dense, technical tradition of the American brutal death metal scene.

Soul Gatherer is a brutal death metal band from Orlando, Florida, formed in 2023, delivering high-intensity, technically driven brutality in a city with a long-standing tradition of extreme metal.

Sounds of Chaos Below is a Topeka, Kansas band formed in 2022 that combines blackened death metal ferocity with brutal death metal density, carving out a particularly savage corner of the extreme metal underground in the American heartland.

Spazmic is a brutal death metal and goregrind band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 2008, operating at the extreme end of the underground with dense, abrasive recordings that blend the gore-splattered imagery and brutality of the genre's most uncompromising practitioners.

Species Splicer is a Lynnwood, Washington band formed in 2017 that operates in the overlapping territory of blackened brutal death metal and deathcore. Their sound grafts the chromatic density and guttural extremity of brutal death metal onto deathcore's breakdown-heavy architecture, with black metal atmosphere woven throughout.

Spinal Fluid is a Minneapolis slam and brutal death metal band formed in 2025, focused on the pit-ready downtuned breakdowns and guttural extremity that define the slam subgenre.
Ripping Brutal Death Metal / Grindcore from El Paso.
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