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Oh No! (2025)
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diorama (2024)
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Mt.Skull (2018)
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Stammer is a death metal and grindcore band from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, formed in 2024, delivering short, explosive blasts of extremity that fuse grindcore's velocity with death metal's low-end brutality.
Standing on a Floor of Bodies is a San Francisco, California brutal death metal and grindcore band formed in 2010, unleashing gory, technically precise extremity from one of the West Coast's most active underground metal cities.
Stiles is a death metal and grindcore project from Lansing, Michigan, formed in 2012. The project operates at the intersection of grinds short, blasting intensity and death metal's more deliberately brutal compositional sensibility.
Michigan grindcore and death metal band formed in 2025, blending the speed and aggression of grind with the sonic brutality of death metal in early-stage releases.
New Philadelphia, Ohio act formed in 2023 that combines death metal, grindcore, and crossover thrash into a fast and abrasive style typical of the genre's more chaotic fringe.
Stoner Witch is an unusual hybrid act from San Antonio, Texas, formed in 2010, fusing the slow, hazy heaviness of stoner/doom metal with the blasting extremity of grindcore into an abrasive and unpredictable sound.
Stormcrow is an Oakland, California band formed in 2005 that merges the rawness of crust punk with grinding death metal brutality, earning recognition in underground circles for their ferocious, socially charged material.
Gilbert, Arizona goregrind and brutal death metal outfit formed in 2025, combining the frenzied extremity of goregrind with the crushing density of brutal death metal.
Long Beach, California sludge metal and grindcore band formed in 2013, merging the suffocating weight of sludge with the blistering tempos and noise of grindcore.
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