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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
Featured Grindcore Album
Apocalypse (2023)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues (2015)
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Staten Island progressive thrash/death metal act formed in 2023 that evolved toward deathcore, mapping a trajectory from technical complexity toward crushing modern heaviness — a New York City band navigating the intersection of precision and brutality.
Atlanta experimental death metal project launched in 2024, pushing the boundaries of the genre with unconventional structures and a willingness to warp conventional brutality into something strange.
Sickbag has been grinding out death metal and grindcore from the Norman city of Caen since 2004, making them one of the region's longer-running extreme acts. Two decades of output reflect an unwavering commitment to short, brutal sonic assaults.
Death metal act from Beacon, New York, formed in 2018, crafting dense and grim material from a small Hudson Valley city with an outsized underground metal presence.
Belgorod's Sickcunt merge brutal death, standard death, and grindcore from the Black Earth region since 2020. Their maximally provocative name channels shock-value extremity into compositions of southern Russian aggression.
Washington State black/death metal project active since 2016, fusing the corrosive rawness of black metal with death metal's heaviness into a bleak and uncompromising sound.
Death metal band from Olean, New York, formed in 2023, bringing a no-nonsense approach to brutality from a small upstate city with deep blue-collar roots.
Springfield, Missouri death metal act formed in 2023, adding to the Midwest's growing extreme metal underground with straightforward, punishing material.
Florence's Sickening have been dealing in brutal death metal since 2008. Their Renaissance city origins create a stark contrast with their music's unrelenting extremity, delivered with technical precision.
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