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Kansas City, Missouri death metal act formed in 2019, bringing the genre's extremity to the heartland with a name that frames their music as an exercise in sustained punishment and a commitment to uncompromising brutality.
Washington state death metal and grindcore outfit formed in 2014, combining the technical and compositional aggression of death metal with grindcore's economy and explosive speed — a combination well-represented in the Pacific Northwest underground.
Reading, Pennsylvania's Threnody have been grinding out death metal since 2012, drawing on the Mid-Atlantic's blue-collar extreme metal tradition to deliver punishing, no-frills heaviness.
Atlanta, Georgia's Threshold of Pain fuse the muscular backbone of heavy metal with punk-inflected urgency and hard rock swagger, forging a raucous, street-level sound that resists easy categorization since their formation in 2015.
Brutal Death Metal from Corpus Christi.
One of Denver's oldest black/death metal acts with roots stretching back to 1983, Throcult are a foundational piece of the Colorado extreme metal underground — a project defined by decades of dark, uncompromising blasphemy.
Idaho Falls, Idaho's Throes of Ire have been crafting death/doom metal since 2013, drawing on the isolation of the high desert to inform a sound that moves between glacial, crushing slowness and moments of genuine menace.
Memphis, Tennessee's Throne weave symphonic orchestration through the foundation of black and death metal, adding cinematic grandeur to the aggression in a way that reflects the city's long history of genre-defying musical ambition.
Portland, Oregon's Throne of Awful Splendor practice blackened death metal with a title that promises baroque darkness and a sound that delivers — violent and dense, drawing from the Pacific Northwest's rich tradition of extreme underground metal since 2014.
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