Charleston's Emaciated Remains crash goregrind sensibilities into brutal death metal, producing something visceral and relentless. Formed in 2025, the band wastes no time establishing a suffocating wall of noise.

Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from Dallas.

Dallas's Embalmed blend the bruising swing of death metal with grindcore's frenetic tempo lurches, a combination they've been perfecting since 1991. A genuine pillar of the Texas extreme underground, the band plays like it has nothing left to lose.

Easton, Pennsylvania's Embryo Evisceration bring goregrind's splatter aesthetic into collision with brutal death metal's compositional heaviness, producing something reliably disgusting. Since 2014, they've served the region's appetite for extreme extremity without compromise.

California's Central Coast town of Atascadero is an unlikely birthplace for a death-grind outfit, but Emetic have been operating there since 2012, delivering short, savage blasts of noise that owe as much to grindcore's hardcore roots as to death metal's brutality.

Chicago's Empty Grave have been thrashing the crossover circuit since 2016, turning the city's hardcore aggression loose on a hard-charging riff machine that owes equal debts to D.R.I. and early Metallica.

Out of California's high-desert community of Yucca Valley, Emulsified Flesh have been splicing grindcore's manic velocity to death metal's rotting heaviness since 2012.

Los Angeles grindcore veterans who have been grinding since 1989, making them one of Southern California's earliest practitioners of the form. Decades of output and lineup changes have done nothing to blunt their commitment to maximum brevity and maximum violence.

Rhode Island death/grind act from Charlestown, formed in 2022 with a clear intent to push both genres toward their most punishing extremes. Short songs, relentless blasting, and a riff vocabulary drawn from the ugliest corners of both traditions.