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Death metal and hardcore band from Guarulhos, São Paulo, formed in 2020, with a lineup of Vicente Moreno on guitar and vocals, Kleber Hora on guitar, Tiago Grilli on bass, and Osmar Jr on drums. The band released a self-titled EP through their Bandcamp page and made their live debut at NVS Studio & Pub.
Burlington, Vermont's Shitangel throws black, death, and thrash into a single caustic blender, emerging as one of the more abrasively minded acts in the New England underground with an irreverent approach to extreme metal since 2019.
El Paso's Shitbear has been combining death metal's brutality, thrash's speed, and grindcore's intensity since 2011, forging an ugly, unpretentious extreme metal attack that reflects the border city's grinding underground energy.
Shitbox deal in death metal from Karlsruhe, bringing no-frills extremity with the crude directness their name promises. Active since 2012, they channel the genre's most unpretentious, brutal impulses.
Detroit's Shitfucker have been weaponizing the intersection of black, death, and thrash metal since 2005, lacing their filth-encrusted attack with punk belligerence — a Motor City band that sounds like it was dragged out of a dumpster fire and handed a guitar.
Kentucky's Shitkluster push brutal death metal and grindcore through the angular filter of djent, arriving at a dissonant, technically precise kind of brutality that refuses to sit still — formed in 2015 and perpetually refusing to be categorized.
Shitstorm unleash thrash and death metal from Horovice, channeling raw aggression through compositions that favor speed and impact. Active since 2009, they've been grinding through the Czech underground for over a decade.
Oakland's Shitty Fucker have been grinding out their Bay Area blend of death/thrash and grindcore since 2017, drawing on the region's long tradition of aggressive, politically charged underground metal with an unpolished, high-energy assault.
Philadelphia's Shiv merge death metal's crushing heaviness with hardcore's blunt-force directness, operating out of Philly's notoriously intense extreme music scene since 2016 with a sound as sharp and purposeful as their name implies.
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