Denver death/grind band Circle of Defeat deliver short, explosive blasts of grindcore-informed brutality that tear through songs in under two minutes. Their approach is no-frills and merciless, with the intensity of both genres concentrated into compact, devastating form.

Santa Cruz death/grind act Citizen bring West Coast venom to their short, violent bursts of blastbeat-driven brutality. Their sound is compact, precise, and merciless.

Denver's Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire assault listeners with a relentless grindcore/metalcore hybrid defined by chaotic speed, serrated riffs, and raw, desperate energy. One of the more ferocious acts to emerge from the Colorado underground scene.

Atlanta's Clot emerged from the pandemic-era underground in 2022, channeling frustration into a grinding blend of grindcore, death metal, and powerviolence. Their debut LP Grief Tethers on Terminus Hate City Records establishes them as one of the city's most vicious new acts.

Mount Pleasant, Michigan's Cloud Rat are one of the most restless and vital grindcore bands in the US, folding black metal, doom, shoegaze, and hardcore punk into their relentlessly political and emotionally raw attack. Signed to Artoffact Records, the trio have spent over a decade releasing a staggering volume of splits, EPs, and full-lengths that refuse easy categorization.

Cincinnati's Clouded merge grindcore's speed with sludge metal's suffocating weight, drawing from a web of overlapping Ohio underground projects. Their early releases, including a 2016 split with Ethicist, showcase a band comfortable in filth.

A St. Louis death metal and grindcore act, Coagulating operate deep within the underground, where blunt brutality and noise collide. Their existence is largely undocumented beyond their regional scene presence.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin grindcore and sludge metal band Coffin Dodger combine the abrasive, short-burst brutality of grind with the slow-burn punishment of sludge. They represent a volatile extreme metal hybrid from the Great Lakes underground.

St. Louis, Missouri black-death and grindcore band Coffin Full of Rats are a chaotic and filthy extreme metal act from the Gateway City's underground. Their music is fast, ugly, and unapologetically hostile.

Dallas, Texas death metal and grindcore outfit Coffin Hoarder push into experimental territory, combining brutality with unpredictable structures that subvert genre expectations. They're one of Dallas's more adventurous extreme metal acts.

Portland death metal, grindcore, and hardcore band Coffin Nail operate with the aggressive brevity and intensity that grind and hardcore demand while grounding everything in death metal's brutal low end. Their sound is relentless and purpose-built for maximum destruction.

North Charleston's Coffin Syrup smash death metal and grindcore into one noxious concoction — short, violent blasts of sonic rot delivered at surgical speed and maximum disgust.

Minneapolis's Cognitive Dissonance ride a thrash and grindcore collision course — tightly wound songs explode with short-fuse aggression and a political edge that has defined their underground run.

Ruthless Grindcore / Technical Death Metal from Dallas.

Glendale, California's Cogort deploy a grinding death metal assault characterized by blunt-force rhythms, guttural vocal punishment, and a compulsion to keep songs fast and mean.