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Long Beach, Mississippi's Skulldozer are an entirely separate outfit sharing a name with their Oregon counterparts, playing death metal out of the Gulf Coast state's small but determined underground scene since 2015.
Virginia Beach's Skulless formed in 2017 at the edge of death metal and grindcore, favoring the kind of brutal, compacted brutality that drops all pretense and hammers straight through — short songs, maximum punishment, East Coast coastal aggression.
Salt Lake City death metal act Skullfuck formed in 2015 with a deliberately abrasive name that signals their allegiance to extreme metal's most uncompromising corner — straightforward death metal delivered without concession to subtlety.
Skullhammer deal in death metal from Bottrop in the northern Ruhr Valley, delivering the blunt-force trauma their name describes. Their Westphalian industrial city base provides a fitting backdrop for their unsubtle extremity.
Limburg's Skullhog merge death metal and grindcore from the Dutch far south since 2007. Nearly two decades of extremity from the hilly border region have produced a body of distinctly unrefined, punishing work.
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New Jersey's Skullmug arrived in 2025 fusing groove metal's loping, syncopated heaviness with death metal's abrasive low-end punishment. A brand-new act, they bring a churn-and-pummel sensibility rooted in the East Coast's long tradition of hard-hitting underground metal.
Skullpit deliver death metal from Jyvaskyla, channeling the mass-grave imagery their name evokes through extreme compositions. Active since 2012, they bring burial-pit darkness to the central Finnish death metal scene.
Active since 2006 out of Bethany, Oklahoma, Skullpl8 have spent nearly two decades refining a death/thrash hybrid that values punishment over polish. Operating under the Horn Cloud Bandcamp banner, they represent the stubborn, self-sufficient streak of the Great Plains underground.
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