Devastating Death Metal from Corpus Christii.

Tallahassee's Sexual Predator traffic in a chaotic convergence of black metal, death metal, and grindcore that resists easy categorization — raw and confrontational in all three modes at once. Formed in 2015 in Florida's fertile extreme music underground, they favor intensity and dissonance over any single style's rulebook.

Tampa grindcore outfit Shining Wizard — the name a nod to pro wrestling — blasts through short, violent songs with the manic energy and irreverence that defines Florida's thriving underground grind scene since 2021.

Shinjuku is an American death metal and grindcore outfit that leans into the chaotic and brutal end of both genres, combining punishing blast-beat intensity with the nihilistic edge of grind since their 2021 debut.

New York's Shiro-Ishii — named for the Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731 commander — combines technical death metal's surgical precision with grindcore's convulsive brutality, making for a relentlessly punishing and disturbing listen since 2018.

Mechanicsville, Maryland's Shit deals in death-laced grindcore with zero pretense, trading in short, furious blasts of extreme noise that sit comfortably in the American underground's most uncompromising corners since 2016.

Detroit's Shit Life plays grindcore with the working-class fury and industrial-city grime that the genre demands, adding another raw and punishing voice to Motor City's long tradition of extreme underground music since 2017.

El Paso's Shitbear has been combining death metal's brutality, thrash's speed, and grindcore's intensity since 2011, forging an ugly, unpretentious extreme metal attack that reflects the border city's grinding underground energy.

Kentucky's Shitkluster push brutal death metal and grindcore through the angular filter of djent, arriving at a dissonant, technically precise kind of brutality that refuses to sit still — formed in 2015 and perpetually refusing to be categorized.