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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Brooklyn's Trenchgrinder have been a fixture in the New York underground since 2011, channeling death metal brutality, thrash velocity, and crust punk filth into a sound built for the pit. Their approach is confrontational and unpolished in the best tradition of the borough's extreme metal lineage.
True Illusion is a Hutchinson, Kansas band formed in 2020 that blends melodic groove metal, thrash, and metalcore influences into a driving, riff-centered sound.
Tulpa is a blackened crust band from Parma, Italy, formed in 2014. Named after the Tibetan thought-form concept, they fuse black metal darkness with crust punk's raw energy.
Black metal and crust punk band from Bielefeld, Germany, active since 2013 with a substantial catalog including splits with Paramnesia, Sun Worship, and Tongue. Their German-language releases like Als Tier ist der Mensch nichts and Die Wiederkehr des Verdrangten merge punk's raw energy with black metal's atmospheric intensity.
Urtica is a doom/sludge metal and crust band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2014 and bridging the gap between heavy doom-laden riffs and punk-rooted crust aggression. The project channels Stockholm's tradition of genre-blending heaviness.
Pittsburgh's Vicious Blade fuse thrash's teeth-bared aggression with the street-level fury of crust punk, a combination that sounds exactly as ugly and relentless as the name suggests. Formed in 2020, they carry the blue-collar menace of their city's industrial past directly into the pit.
Denver's Victim of Fire scorch through the boundary between death metal and crust punk, letting both sides burn at equal intensity. Founded in 2019 at a mile-high altitude, their sound carries the breathless, frantic energy of both underground traditions.
Victims formed in Nyköping, Sweden in 1997 and became one of the most respected acts in the international d-beat and crust punk underground, drawing on Discharge, Motörhead, and 1980s American hardcore as primary influences. Over their career they released seven full-length albums on labels including Deathwish Inc., Tankcrimes, and Relapse Records, earning a reputation for unyielding intensity and ideological consistency. The band entered an indefinite hiatus in 2022.
Vinoristi is a black metal/crust band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2015. They fuse black metal's atmospheric darkness with crust punk's raw, D-beat aggression.
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