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Food Exit is a grindcore/crust punk trio from Florence, Italy, formed in 2017, whose members ironically identify as 'McDonald's employees.' Their debut EP Increase Your Size! packs nine tracks into roughly seven minutes of fast-food-themed grindcore chaos.
ForeAeon is a thrash/death metal and crust band from Kaunas, Lithuania, formed in 2023. They merge the aggression of thrash and death metal with the punk ethos of crust, representing the Baltic extreme metal underground.
Blasphemous Crust Punk / Black Metal from San Antonio.
Força Macabra is a thrash metal/crossover/crust band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 1999. With over a quarter century of activity, the band has been a staple of the Finnish crossover thrash and crust punk underground.
Fosforos is a death metal/crust punk band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2015. The band merges death metal heaviness with the raw, politically charged energy of crust punk.
Fukpig is a black metal, crust, and grindcore band from Birmingham, created to play both beats -- the blast and the D-beat -- with a prolific discography including Spewings from a Selfish Nation and Belief Is The Death Of Intelligence. The band has been delivering provocative, confrontational extreme metal from the heart of Birmingham since 2002.
Galgeberg is a death metal/crust band from Oslo, formed in 2025. They merge death metal with crust punk from the Norwegian capital.
Out of Evansville, Indiana, Gaol wallows in the harsh intersection of crust punk and sludge metal, piling filth-encrusted riffs onto a foundation of hardcore-informed aggression. Active since 2015, the band brings a Midwest working-class rawness to a sound that refuses to clean up or slow down.
Chicago's Gaunt have been fusing black metal's corrosive spite with crust punk's d-beat aggression since 1994, building one of the longer track records in the city's extreme underground. Their sound is raw, political, and entirely committed to the gutter.
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