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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Crust punk and sludge metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland formed in 2024. They bring raw, heavy crust-sludge from the Scottish capital.
Grindcore, death metal, and crust punk outfit from Oldenburg in northern Germany, delivering chaotic blasts of genre-blending extremity since 2020. Their darkly humorous name sets the tone for an approach that refuses to take itself too seriously while remaining sonically devastating.
Massive Epic Crust / Doom / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Grindcore, crust, and death metal hybrid from Valencia, Spain, delivering chaotic, politically charged extremity since 2014. Their name, Spanish for "The Hunger," captures the desperate, consuming aggression of their genre-blending assault.
Electro Hippies were a thrashcore and early grindcore band formed in St Helens/Wigan, England in 1985, notable for including Jeff Walker — later of Carcass — in their ranks. Their politically charged, blisteringly fast material advocated for animal rights and opposed vivisection, with tracks frequently lasting under a minute. The band recorded a Peel Session in 1987 and released a handful of LPs and EPs before disbanding in 1989, leaving an outsized influence on the emerging crust and grindcore scenes.
Portland's Elitist refuse to stay in one lane — their sound drags sludge's suffocating weight through grindcore velocity and crust punk fury, occasionally dropping into straight death metal savagery without warning.
Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.
Oakland's Embers fuse black metal's icy atmosphere with doom's crushing weight and crust punk's streetwise grit, building something uniquely Bay Area in its bleakness. Active since 2009, they've carved out a space where political urgency and sonic desolation intersect.
On the warpath since 2015, this Stockholm Crust Punk, Death Metal, and Grindcore outfit delivers microsecond-length blasts of noise and fury. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
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