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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Dayton, Ohio's Chronic Demise operates in the grinding intersection of death metal and grindcore, favoring speed, blasting, and concise bursts of brutality. Their music draws from the Midwest's tradition of keeping extreme metal gritty and unpretentious.
Death-grind act from Estremoz in the Alentejo, formed in 2018. Chronic Infection delivers blast-driven extremity from the marble-quarrying town of central Portugal.
Seattle grindcore band Chronic Tomb delivers short, punishing blasts of noise in the Pacific Northwest underground tradition. Their music favors velocity and controlled chaos over any concession toward accessibility.
Fargo, North Dakota's Chronocide brings groove metal's locked-in rhythmic chug to the Great Plains, fusing it with traditional heavy metal songcraft. Their music is accessible but heavy, built for arenas their region rarely hosts.
Knoxville's Chthonic Abomination tears through black metal and grindcore with feral energy and a total disregard for sonic comfort, resulting in short, violent, and chaotic bursts of noise. Their approach is combative and unpolished in the best underground tradition.
Pennsylvania brutal death/grind veterans Circle of Dead Children have been one of the most extreme and uncompromising acts in American underground metal since the mid-1990s. Their hyper-blasting, caustic assault blurs the line between brutal death metal and grindcore with relentless ferocity.
Denver death/grind band Circle of Defeat deliver short, explosive blasts of grindcore-informed brutality that tear through songs in under two minutes. Their approach is no-frills and merciless, with the intensity of both genres concentrated into compact, devastating form.
Santa Cruz death/grind act Citizen bring West Coast venom to their short, violent bursts of blastbeat-driven brutality. Their sound is compact, precise, and merciless.
Black metal and grindcore act from Amsterdam, formed in 2021. Clear History fuses raw black metal with grinding intensity from the Dutch capital.
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