Phoenix grindcore and death metal outfit Oozing attack with the kind of blistering, sun-baked aggression you'd expect from the Arizona desert — short, violent, and utterly without mercy. Their blasts hit like heat shimmering off asphalt at noon in July.

Punishing Brutal Death Metal / Grindcore from San Antonio.

Atwater, California's Organ Harvester arrived in 2024 playing brutal death metal and goregrind with all the subtlety the name implies — grotesque, blasting, and surgically relentless. Central Valley brutality at its most visceral.

Brooklyn's Orthopedic Cranial Encavement announced themselves in 2021 with a name that functions as its own content advisory — a grindcore act whose music is as compressed, chaotic, and medically inadvisable as their moniker suggests. New York noise colliding with blast-beat precision.

Devastating Death Metal / Grindcore out of Texas.