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Pittsburgh's E.F.6 tears through the intersection of death metal and goregrind with blunt-force efficiency, formed in 2018 and operating in a city with a long tradition of underground extremity.
Tucson's Earacher does exactly what grindcore should — short, loud, punishing — and has been delivering that prescription since 2018 from one of the Southwest's most underrated underground scenes.
Chicago's Earthburner is a death metal and grindcore project that launched in 2024, joining one of the country's strongest underground metal cities with a genre combination designed to do maximum damage in minimum time.
Out of Ojai, California since 2019, this band lives at the collision point of grindcore, death metal, and powerviolence — short songs, maximum hostility, zero tolerance for restraint.
A Ventura, California death-grind act with over a decade behind them, Eat the Living has consistently delivered the kind of gore-soaked, blast-heavy brutality their name promises.
Lucas, Texas grindcore since 2014 — Eaten keeps it short, fast, and punishing, with the kind of no-frills approach that made grind powerful in the first place.
Worcester's answer to the grind underground, this Massachusetts incarnation of Eaten has been active since 2014 playing the same blunt, high-velocity style that defined the genre's DIY roots.
Seattle's Ectopic Pregnancy, formed in 2024, weaponize brutal death metal and goregrind in the tradition of Pacific Northwest extremity — confrontational, visceral, and unapologetically ugly.
Out of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania — a town with its own ghosts — Ectoplasm have been grinding through the death/grind underground since 2019, their name fitting perfectly for a band rising from historically haunted soil.
Madison, Wisconsin's Effluvium formed in 2016 to deliver goregrind-inflected death metal with the relentless churn the genre demands. Short songs, maximum rot — a welcome addition to the Upper Midwest's extreme underground.
Dayton, Ohio's Ejaculating Rektal Squid Pussy commits fully to the brutality of goregrind and brutal death metal, a project formed in 2022 with no pretense toward subtlety. Cavernous gurgles, blast beats, and maximum grotesquerie.
Parlin, New Jersey's El-Ahrairah has been grinding out a death metal and grindcore hybrid since 2009, sharing a name with the Minneapolis black metal act but occupying a completely different sonic space. Brutal, economical, and unrelenting.
Rochester's Electric Bath have carved out a niche in grindcore-laced death metal since 2023, keeping things brutally short and surgically violent in the tradition of the genre's most relentless practitioners.
Portland's Elitist refuse to stay in one lane — their sound drags sludge's suffocating weight through grindcore velocity and crust punk fury, occasionally dropping into straight death metal savagery without warning.
Pittsburgh's Elizabeth Short, named after the Black Dahlia murder victim, channel grotesque history into their goregrind — a band as fixated on true crime's darkest chapters as they are on blasting drums and gargled vocals.
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