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Splatter Day Saints is a grindcore and death metal band from Carson City, Nevada, formed in 2012, playing gore-drenched extreme music with a name that riffs on the region's dominant cultural backdrop.
Splatter Whore is a death 'n' roll and grindcore band from East St. Louis, Illinois, formed in 2009, blending the groove-heavy swagger of death 'n' roll with the abrasion of goregrind in the Midwest underground tradition.
Splattered is a brutal death metal band from Fremont, California, formed in 2012, delivering technically precise and viscerally punishing brutal death with deep roots in the Bay Area's extreme metal scene.
Splattered Entrails is a brutal death metal and goregrind band from Levittown, New York, formed in 2006, combining the guttural density of brutal death with the surgical gore fixation of goregrind in the Long Island underground.
SplatterFace is a death metal and goregrind band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2018, trafficking in gore-soaked extremity with the irreverent spirit typical of Southern California's prolific underground splatter scene.
Splatterhouse is a death metal and grindcore band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2016, named after the classic horror arcade game and operating in the Pacific Northwest's fertile extreme metal underground.
Detroit, Michigan goregrind band Squalid trace their origins back to 1985, making them one of the longer-running acts in the city's extreme underground with decades of gory, blast-driven aggression.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Squalor have played death metal and grindcore since 2010, merging the brutality of both genres into a relentlessly abrasive sound rooted in the mid-Atlantic underground.
Waterbury, Connecticut goregrind band Squashed Beef formed in 2020, embracing the genre's irreverent extremity and splatter-themed aesthetic with blasting drums and guttural, pitch-shifted vocals.
Stabbed is a Long Island, New York death metal and grindcore band formed in 2016, fusing the blasting ferocity of grindcore with the surgical brutality of death metal.
Stabbed in the Face is a Detroit, Michigan death metal and grindcore band formed in 2015, channeling the city's long tradition of extreme music into short, violent bursts of gore-drenched brutality.
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.
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