Casa Grande, Arizona act bridging death metal and grindcore with disgust-fueled riffing and a splatter-obsessed aesthetic that nods to the nastier end of goregrind.

New York's Castigate operate firmly in brutal death metal territory, prioritizing gore-drenched guttural vocals and relentlessly technical riffing over any melodic concession.

Philadelphia's Castle Freak lean into the noise and chaos of grindcore while keeping one foot in death metal's structural sensibility, delivering brief, violent bursts of grinding extremity.

North Carolina death metal/grindcore act combining brutal death metal heaviness with the relentless blasting tempos and savage brevity of grindcore.

Cataract Stare is a San Diego oddity pairing the hyper-blasted ferocity of grindcore with the bombastic melody and theatrical energy of power metal, resulting in a chaotic yet surprisingly catchy sound. Short song lengths and velocity are weaponized against pompous epic structures.

Catchfire from Birmingham merges the hyper-speed brutality of grindcore with death metal's down-tuned heaviness, producing short, violent songs that burn out in blasts of noise and aggression. Alabama's underground history of extreme music informs their no-frills extremity.

Huntington Beach extreme metal collective fusing black metal, death metal, grindcore, and sludge into a chaotic, genre-defying hybrid that resists easy categorization.

Denver death metal/grindcore veterans since 1997, inventors of the 'Southwest Doom Violence' sound fusing grindcore blasting with sludge-infused doom passages and crust punk abrasion.

San Diego's most brutal export, fusing blistering deathgrind with progressive song structures and ferocious vocal range, evolving from raw gore-grind into technically devastating albums like Monolith of Inhumanity and Death Atlas while maintaining their uncompromising pro-animal, anti-human lyrical stance.