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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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Charlotte, NC's Columns grind through death metal with a ferocity and economy that leaves little room to breathe. Short bursts of controlled violence are their calling card in the Carolina underground.
Finnish grindcore band emerging in 2025. They deliver short, intense bursts of chaotic grinding fury.
Pittsburgh's Commit Suicide combine brutal death metal's punishing low-end with grindcore's breakneck pace, producing something overwhelmingly violent and mercilessly fast. The Steel City underground runs deep in their veins.
Blackened crust/grind addressing border, religious, and governmental oppression in the El Paso region. Active 2010-2016 on Unholy Anarchy Records.
Hungarian death-grind and sludge project formed in 2021. Communist Holocaust channels politically charged fury through a volatile mix of grindcore blasts and sludge-laden weight.
Compassion Fatigue grind through a corrosive intersection of black metal, death metal, and grindcore, channeling relentless hostility into short, caustic blasts of extreme noise.
Pittsburgh grindcore unit Complete Failure wage a relentless campaign of short, ferocious songs built on blastbeats and filth-encrusted riffs, squeezing maximum carnage into minimum runtime.
Boston's Composted drag brutal death metal and grindcore through a compost heap of filth, producing putrid, blast-driven assaults that leave little room for anything but decomposition.
San Antonio, Texas's Con Carnage charge through a cross-section of death metal, grindcore, and hardcore, channeling the Lone Star State's underground aggression into fast, frenzied attacks.
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