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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/07 @ House of Blues Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Denver death metal/grindcore veterans since 1997, inventors of the 'Southwest Doom Violence' sound fusing grindcore blasting with sludge-infused doom passages and crust punk abrasion.
San Diego's most brutal export, fusing blistering deathgrind with progressive song structures and ferocious vocal range, evolving from raw gore-grind into technically devastating albums like Monolith of Inhumanity and Death Atlas while maintaining their uncompromising pro-animal, anti-human lyrical stance.
Denver death metal and grindcore band delivering fast, unrelenting blasts alongside chunky death metal riffs rooted in classic deathgrind brutality.
St. Louis experimental death metal and grindcore band leaning into bizarre humor and grotesque absurdity, mixing blasting grind violence with oddball genre detours.
Death metal and grindcore band from Aachen, Germany, active since 2002. With over two decades of activity, Cause of Divorce grind out chaotic extremity from the westernmost city in Germany.
Death metal and grindcore band from Barcelona, Spain, emerging in 2025. They deliver abrasive, grinding extremity from the Catalan underground.
Florida mathcore and deathgrind trio blending the arhythmic dissonance of Discordance Axis with brutal deathgrind energy and free jazz-influenced off-kilter structures.
Oakland, Maryland's Cavern blend progressive metal's structural ambition with sludge heaviness and thrash metal's rhythmic aggression, producing a genre-spanning sound that shifts between cerebral complexity and sheer sonic weight.
Death-grind-industrial hybrid from Sundsvall on the Norrland coast, active since 2013. Cavevomit delivers a chaotic blend of extreme subgenres from central northern Sweden.
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