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SUCKERPUNCH (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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On The Hunt (2023)
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Oklahoma City band formed in 2014 that splices together thrash metal, grindcore, and doom into a chaotic and deliberately genre-defying hybrid rooted in the Oklahoma underground.
Subtlety is a death metal/grindcore outfit from Los Lunas, New Mexico, formed in 2024, delivering short blasts of brutal riffing and grinding aggression from the high desert of the Southwest.
North Carolina project formed in 2020 that combines atmospheric black metal and doom with elements of grindcore, creating a jarring and unconventional blend of introspective bleakness and violent sonic bursts.
Columbia, Missouri goregrind project formed in 2024, trafficking in the hyper-compressed blasts and grotesque lyrical imagery that define the most extreme end of the grindcore spectrum.
Orlando black/death metal and grindcore band formed in 2013, blending the chaos of grindcore with the darkness of black and death metal into a relentlessly aggressive extreme metal assault.
Sulaco is a Rochester, New York death metal and grindcore band active since 2003, known for their punishing fusion of extreme metal brutality with the velocity and compression of grind.
Sully is a Rochester, New York grindcore band active since 2008, delivering the fast, abrasive blasts characteristic of the genre's underground DIY scene.
Summoned is a death metal and grindcore band from Whittier, California, formed in 2007, combining the brutality of death metal with the speed and aggression of grind.
Sunyata is a grindcore band from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2020, whose name references the Buddhist concept of emptiness, delivering blasts of chaotic, high-velocity grindcore from the desert Southwest underground.
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