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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Hailing from Peru, New York — a small Adirondack-adjacent town — Slaughtered Remains have kept death metal alive in a rural corner of upstate New York since 2007. Their persistence in an area far removed from major urban metal scenes marks them as a genuine underground institution.
Slaughterer deliver death/thrash metal from Regensburg, combining the genres' most aggressive elements into a fierce, dual-pronged assault. Active since 2018, they bring relentless extremity to the Bavarian metal scene.
A Los Angeles thrash metal band formed in 2018, this Slaughterhouse draws from Southern California's rich thrash heritage — a lineage that runs from the Big Four's influence through decades of LA underground bands keeping the genre's speed and aggression alive.
New Jersey's SlaughterHouseFive have been fusing death metal's crushing weight with deathcore's breakdowns and structural savagery since 2007, navigating the intersection of those two scenes long enough to predate deathcore's mainstream rise and fall. The literary nod in the name suggests a band with more going on than brute force alone.
Slaughterror deliver death metal from Helsinki, channeling the terror of slaughter through extreme compositions. Formed in 2024, they bring fresh horrific intensity to the Finnish capital's death metal scene.
A Florida death/thrash band formed in 2024, Slaughterspine arrive at a moment when the death-thrash hybrid is experiencing a genuine underground resurgence, and their home state's storied history in both genres gives them a formidable tradition to draw from.
Lyndhurst, New Jersey's Slaughtersun take a progressive approach to death metal, layering technical ambition and compositional complexity over the genre's foundational brutality since their 2023 formation. The NJ progressive death metal scene has long punched above its weight, and Slaughtersun continue that tradition.
San José, California's Slaughteruin emerged in 2024 at the black/death metal crossroads, channeling the bestial extremity that the Bay Area underground has historically produced alongside its better-known thrash and death scenes. Their name suggests total annihilation as an aesthetic and a philosophy.
Slaughterwar is a black/death metal act formed in 2021 with no fixed location on record, operating in the shadowy margins where those two genres produce music that is more weapon than song. The war metal atmosphere their name projects places them in a tradition that treats extreme metal as an instrument of pure sonic devastation.
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