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Butterflies (2025)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Sonic Brew 20th Anniversary Blend 5.99 - 5.19 (2019)
05/29 @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Los Angeles's Goreified have been practicing old-school death metal with deliberate grime since 2018, reaching back past the genre's glossy later years to something rawer and more menacing. Exactly as ugly as the name suggests.
Ruthless Brutal Death Metal / Goregrind from Bloomington, Illinois (early, later); Texas (mid); Southern California (mid).
From the small Illinois town of Bement, Goretesque approach death metal with the rural underground's stripped-back intensity since 2021 — no frills, no shortcuts, just straight-ahead brutality from somewhere you'd never expect it.
Connecticut's Gorge have been filling the space between doom and sludge with dense, slow-rolling heaviness since 2015 — Simsbury's contribution to a tradition of New England bands that take the heavy in heavy metal seriously.
Sonoma, California's Gorge blend death metal's mordant aggression with doom's unhurried pace since 2015, cultivating an atmosphere of rot and weight amid the wine country's rolling hills. The contrast feels entirely intentional.
Henderson, Texas's Gorifice have been keeping East Texas's extreme metal underground alive since 2014 — death metal played with regional directness, no polish, and a commitment to the genre's most primitive pleasures.
Cincinnati's Gorotum have been adding their own chapter to Ohio's rich death metal history since 2021, channeling the Midwest's underground tradition into dense, punishing compositions that feel lived-in despite the band's relative youth.
Monterey, California's Gorphyryac have been crossing death and thrash metal's shared border since 2013 — speed and aggression locked together by the California Central Coast, a region not known for producing extreme metal but apparently keeping some.
Out of Monticello, Minnesota since 2019, Gorrified play death metal with the bluntness the name implies — Minnesota cold filtered through extreme metal's most punishing traditions, with no interest in softening the result.
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