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Butterflies (2025)
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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
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Evidence (2023)
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Cleveland's M.e.V. blends melodic death metal hooks with the city's gritty industrial undercurrent, weaving clean and harsh vocal dynamics over technically driven riffwork. They've been carving out their corner of the Ohio extreme metal scene since 2012.
Out of South Jersey since 1987, Macabre are death metal veterans who've spent decades refining a punishing, unrelenting approach to extreme heaviness. Their long tenure speaks to a genuine commitment to the craft that few bands from that era still maintain.
Ripping Death Metal from Fort Worth.
Ripping Thrash / Death Metal from Spring/Houston.
Miami's Maedusa conjure melodic black/death metal with the heat and tension of South Florida baked in — serpentine riffs coiling around bleak, atmospheric stretches. Since 2016 they've carved a menacing identity that feels distinctly rooted in the subtropics.
Crushing Slam / Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore out of Texas.
Florence, Kentucky's Maggot Casket arrived in 2019 swinging death metal as a blunt instrument — dense, suffocating, and uninterested in subtlety. They represent the heartland's appetite for the ugliest end of extreme metal.
Visalia's Maggot Colony have been fusing death metal brutality with grindcore brevity since 2006, delivering short blasts of California-grown filth with relentless energy. Two decades in, their approach remains as single-minded and caustic as ever.
A 2022 addition to Seattle's extreme underground, Maggot Grinder weaponize death metal and grindcore into something dense and fast — quick songs built to leave a mark, not a melody. The Pacific Northwest crust is baked into every track.
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