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Visalia's Maggot Colony have been fusing death metal brutality with grindcore brevity since 2006, delivering short blasts of California-grown filth with relentless energy. Two decades in, their approach remains as single-minded and caustic as ever.
A death metal, grindcore, and goregrind act from Coventry, Maggot Erotica revels in the most repulsive end of extreme music since 2018. The band delivers grotesque, blast-driven compositions with the deliberately offensive aesthetic the genre demands.
A 2022 addition to Seattle's extreme underground, Maggot Grinder weaponize death metal and grindcore into something dense and fast — quick songs built to leave a mark, not a melody. The Pacific Northwest crust is baked into every track.
Maggot Shoes is a death metal/grindcore band from Nuremberg, Germany, founded in 1993 by bassist Alex and guitarist Kevin with roots in the local crust punk scene. Their discography spans from the 2005 debut "A Shoe Full of Maggots" through demos and releases blending crust, grindcore, and death metal into short, savage bursts.
Maggots in Your Coffin is an extreme metal project from Lahti, Finland, formed in 1999. Operating as a duo, they have maintained a prolific underground output spanning demo recordings from 1999 through 2015, including 'Resurrected Flesh' (2006), 'The Gate' (2010), and 'Murderous Freaks' (2015), plus the release 'Extermination.'
Tucson's Magguts drag death metal and grindcore through the desert dust, conjuring something dehydrated and violent from the Sonoran underground. Active since 2013, they've refined a sound as harsh and unforgiving as the Arizona sun.
Maghmata is a death 'n' roll and stoner metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2019. They blend death metal's ferocity with rock 'n' roll groove and stoner metal's fuzzy, riff-driven heaviness.
Magick Howl is a one-man doom and death metal act from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2022 by Eduardo Aguirre. Their prolific output spans six releases from 2022's Sulphurnaut through 2025's double-LP compilation Congregation IV, released on limited vinyl through Ixiol Productions.
Magister is a doom/death metal band from Oberursel, Germany, formed in 2021. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
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