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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Heavy Brutal Death Metal / Deathcore from Brownsville.
Illinois brutal death metal act Simulacrum AD launched in 2024, bringing the most punishing branch of death metal's extremity to bear on their compositions. The name — invoking simulacra and the post-truth collapse of authentic reality — pairs conceptual weight with genre-appropriate sonic violence.
Skag is a Dayton, Ohio brutal death metal and grindcore band formed in 2022, delivering punishing low-end heaviness punctuated by grind-tempo blasting and guttural vocal extremity. They represent the working-class Midwest underground tradition of no-frills, no-mercy extreme metal.
Dublin's Skewered deliver brutal death metal with the impaling violence their name implies since 2007. Nearly two decades of Irish extremity have honed their sound to a razor-sharp point of uncompromising brutality.
A Florida brutal deathcore act formed in 2022, Skin Stripper pushes the extremity dial toward the red — combining the suffocating low-end of slam-inflected brutality with deathcore's penchant for breakdown-driven punishment.
Charlotte, North Carolina's Skin You Alive formed in 2024 and immediately planted a flag in the brutal death metal and hardcore crossover, fusing pit-ready hardcore energy with the gruesome low-end devastation of brutal death.
Hailing from Glens Falls, New York, Skinless are one of the defining forces of American brutal death metal — a band that built their reputation on relentlessly heavy riffs, guttural extremity, and over two decades of uncompromising output.
Fort Collins, Colorado's Skinned have been in the brutal death metal game since 1998, making them one of the longer-running outfits in the Mountain West underground — characterized by the kind of thick, punishing riffs that come from years of refinement.
Skorbut blast through brutal death metal and grindcore from Berlin, emerging in 2025 with the diseased intensity their scurvy-inspired name suggests. Their German capital output channels the most extreme end of the death/grind spectrum.
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