North Carolina's Crypt Baby smash together brutal death metal, grindcore, and splatter-house extremity into short, pulverizing blasts. Their approach is deliberately caustic, prioritizing density and speed above all else.

Findlay, Ohio's Crypt Tongue blend the blasting chaos of grindcore with death metal's tonal brutality, resulting in fast, ferocious music with little patience for subtlety. Their sets leave little time to breathe.

Raleigh's Crypt Walk make an unlikely but energetic fusion of grindcore aggression and power metal melodics. The combination results in surprisingly catchy extreme metal that careens between blast-beat fury and soaring riff moments.

Mingo Junction, Ohio's Cryptic Abuse smash together brutal death metal and grindcore into relentlessly punishing music from the heart of the rust belt underground. Their recordings are deliberately unclean, prioritizing crushing impact over studio gloss.

Death metal and grindcore act from Cleveland, Ohio formed in 2004 as a gore-and-humor-themed side project of Violent Night members, releasing material on Electric Ice Records before the members moved on. The band has stated no plans to reform.

Gulf Coast grindcore featuring Insect Warfare drummer Frank Faerman.

Galesburg, Illinois's Cult of Mutants collapse death metal, grindcore, sludge, and experimental noise into a deliberately deformed mass with little regard for genre tidiness. The result is exactly what the name suggests — a mutated, grotesque thing that thrives in the margins of extreme music.

Lakeland, Florida's Cum Soaked Corpses Leaking Rectal Discharge are a two-piece goregrind duo who weaponize slamming rhythms, guttural extremity, and intentional provocation into brief, relentless bursts of brutal death metal noise. Self-described as stoned, drunk scumbags, they've released a steady stream of material including the 2023 full-length Indica Cocaine.

Nashville's Cumshot Wound are a grindy noise-worship unit who pack visceral, relentless riffs and raw, socio-political lyrical content into short, grinding blasts that blur the lines between death metal, grindcore, and metalcore. Formed in 2024 and signed to Scum City Entertainment, they quickly became one of Tennessee's most confrontational new acts.