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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)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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New Jersey's Cavity Injector smash death metal and grindcore together in characteristic East Coast bursts of blastbeats, surgical riff brutality, and vocals pitched between guttural roar and grinding shriek.
Death metal and grindcore band from Bebra, Germany, active since 2009. They deliver chaotic, abrasive extremity from the Hessian countryside.
Cell Death is a grindcore band from Richmond, Virginia, delivering short, savage blasts rooted in the powerviolence and hardcore punk traditions that have long defined the Richmond extreme music underground.
Cellar Fluids is a death metal and grindcore band from Savannah, Georgia, blending the gore-obsessed intensity of grind with the downtuned riff structures of death metal for a caustic and deliberately unpolished sound.
Cellgraft is a grindcore band from Tampa, Florida, known for tight, blastbeat-driven ferocity and biting socially charged lyrics, operating in the precise and unrelenting tradition of American technical grindcore.
Cemetery Flood is a grindcore band from Pennsylvania, delivering fast, chaotic, and confrontational material in the powerviolence and classic grind tradition, with raw production and unrelenting sonic hostility.
Denver, Colorado extreme metal outfit formed in 1992, renowned for a chaotic blend of grindcore, death metal, and progressive elements that has made them one of the most technically adventurous acts in the American underground; their albums on Relapse Records, including Lucid Interval and Xenosapien, are landmarks of experimental extreme metal.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania brutal death metal and grindcore band whose name — a medical term for conjoined twins — signals their penchant for grotesque themes delivered through abrasive, blasting extremity.
Death-grind act from Ankara, formed in 2025. Cerahat — Turkish for 'pus' — delivers visceral extremity from the Turkish capital.
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