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Gulfport, Mississippi band combining death metal heaviness with grindcore's relentless, short-burst aggression. They bring Gulf Coast brutality in compact, intense doses.
North Carolina death metal and grindcore act fusing grinding speed with brutal heaviness from the Southeastern underground. Their approach is violent, blunt, and unrelenting.
Orlando grindcore act delivering rapid-fire blasts and abrasive noise from the Florida underground. Short, ferocious bursts of chaos are the defining feature of their output.
Chicopee, Massachusetts brutal death metal band delivering blasphemous, gore-drenched extremity from the New England underground. Dense, guttural, and uncompromisingly brutal.
San Luis Obispo, California death metal and grindcore band channeling the chaotic energy of both scenes into short, vicious blasts of noise. They favor speed and savagery over any pretense of melody.
Indianapolis brutal death metal and grindcore outfit that makes no effort to obscure its intentions — the name says everything about the level of restraint on display. Their music is a short, violent exercise in extreme audio punishment.
Portland, OR death/grind act that keeps things short, brutal, and to the point. They fuse the clinical ferocity of death metal with the breakneck pace of grindcore.
Los Angeles grindcore band that delivers brief, ferocious blasts of controlled chaos. Their music is surgical in its brutality — fast, hostile, and over before you can process what hit you.
Maine's Costectomy deal in the fast and ugly intersection of death metal and grindcore, delivering short blasts of surgical brutality. They keep things raw and direct, no frills, just grinding intensity.
Philadelphia death/grind band Covered in Sores work in the ugly, fast-and-filthy tradition of bands that made both genres infamous — short songs, intense bursts, no mercy. They fit naturally into Philly's deep history of extreme underground acts.
Minneapolis death/grind band Covven churn through blasting extremity with the raw energy of grindcore and the compositional weight of death metal. They're part of the Twin Cities' active and eclectic heavy underground.
Portland oddity blending power metal bombast with doom weight and grindcore aggression in ways that shouldn't work but somehow do. Their catalog is unpredictable and deliberately genre-defiant.
Saugerties, New York band grinding through death metal and grindcore with short, abrasive blasts of extremity. Rooted firmly in the underground traditions of both genres, they favor speed and rawness.
Austin death metal and grindcore band delivering short, brutal material with Texas underground credibility. Fast, loud, and uncompromising, they've been a fixture of the Austin extreme metal community.
California brutal death metal and grindcore act producing grotesque, high-speed extremity with serious underground credentials. Unrelenting in tempo and unsparing in subject matter.
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