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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Call of the Void formed in Denver, Colorado around 2010, formerly operating as Ironhorse, and quickly established themselves as one of the heaviest acts in the American underground by blending grindcore blast beats with crust punk grit and sludge metal weight. Signed to Relapse Records, the band released Dragged Down a Dead End Path (2013), Ageless (2015), and Buried in Light (2019). Their approach draws equally from 1980s hardcore aggression and the nihilistic density of doom.
Crust-death act from Modena, Italy, active since 2009. Cancer Spreading fuses d-beat crust punk with death metal heaviness, bridging the punk and metal undergrounds of Emilia-Romagna.
New Jersey black metal and crust outfit emerging from Clementon in 2018, fusing the raw aggression of crust punk with the cold savagery of black metal.
Blackened crust punk band from London, formed in 2019. They fuse black metal darkness with crust punk's raw fury.
Crust-thrash act from Malmö, formed in 2021. Catachrest merges d-beat crust punk with thrash metal from Sweden's southernmost city.
Eau Claire's Caveat fuse crust punk's raw, d-beat urgency with sludge metal's tar-thick low end, resulting in a grinding, oppressive sound that moves between crusty blasts and suffocating slow-downs.
Black metal and crust punk band from Hildesheim, Germany, active since 2010. They fuse the raw aggression of black metal with the political fury and d-beat rhythms of crust punk.
Genre-crossing extreme metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2016. Chaver blend black metal, crust punk, death metal, and groove metal into a fierce and unpredictable assault.
Dayton's Cheap Gas smashes black metal, crust punk, and grindcore into a filthy, high-speed collision that prioritizes ferocity and brevity above all else. Their sound is as blunt and unrefined as the industrial Midwestern city they come from.
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