A fresh-formed goregrind project launched in 2024, Kadavered traffics in the kind of blasting, guttural extremity that defines the most uncompromising end of American grind. Short, fast, and relentlessly ugly.

Rochester, New York's Kalibas have been a shape-shifting force in extreme metal since 2003, starting as a brutal death/grindcore act before incorporating black metal into their arsenal. Over twenty years they've grown into something genuinely hard to classify, which is precisely their appeal.

St. Louis grindcore/hardcore act Karenocalypse lean hard into social satire without sacrificing the ferocity that makes their genre work — short bursts of fury with a pointed sense of humor since forming in 2023. A band whose name tells you everything about their attitude.

Ann Arbor, Michigan veterans Kathode have been at it since 1996, blending death metal's brutality with thrash's aggression and occasional blasts of grindcore chaos into a relentlessly punishing whole.

Ferocious Dallas grindcore on Relapse Records. Members also in PLF and Noisear.

New Orleans' Killgore came out of the gate swinging in 2022, mixing death metal's low-end crush with grindcore's sub-two-minute brutality in a city that knows how to make punishment feel celebratory.

Relentless Grindcore out of Texas.

Vicious Death / Thrash Metal (early); Thrash Metal / Grindcore (later) from Houston.

Erupting out of Everett, Washington in 2024, Kyphosis fuse brutal death metal and grindcore with jarring industrial textures — a collision of brute force and mechanical hostility that feels genuinely new even by extreme metal standards.