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El Paso's Crematory Digestor churn out filthy death metal and grindcore from the Texas-Mexico borderland underground. Their music is unrelenting and grimy, rooted in the low-budget brutality of regional extreme metal.
Salt Lake City's Crepusculum combine the relentless grind of grindcore with death metal's morbid density, emerging from Utah's small but ferocious extreme metal community. Their output is fast, brutal, and uncompromising.
St. Louis brutal death/slam outfit Crescent Shaped Corpse specialize in bowel-churning low-end devastation and squealing pinch harmonics. They are among Missouri's heaviest practitioners of slam-oriented death metal extremity.
San Jose's Cretin are a grind/death institution fronted by vocalist Marissa Martinez, one of the most distinctive voices in the underground. Their music is whiplash-fast and viciously articulate, earning a devoted following since the early 2000s.
Criminal Element merge death metal's morbid brutality with grindcore's political ferocity from within the Washington D.C. underground. Their sound reflects the confrontational energy of the capital city's extreme music scene.
Syracuse, New York's Criminally Insane combine the gore and brutality of death metal with grindcore's explosive intensity in the tradition of upstate New York's extreme underground. Their music is fast, ugly, and uncompromising.
Los Angeles-based Crom cast an unusually wide net across doom, sludge, grind, power, and thrash, resulting in a chaotic and unpredictable strain of heavy music from the SoCal underground.
Houston death/grind act Crone bring short, savage blasts of noise and brutality to the Texas underground, combining the gut-punch of grindcore with straightforward death metal punishment.
Los Angeles grindcore/power metal oddity Crookedcop merge the blasting chaos of grind with the bombast of power metal in a deliberately disorienting and genre-defiant collision.
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