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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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Kansas City's Convulsed grind through brutal death metal with a grindcore-informed hunger for speed and extremity, delivering punishing releases that hit hard and don't overstay their welcome. They're a reliable force in Missouri's underground extreme metal scene.
Grindcore band from El Ejido in Almeria, Spain, formed in 2016. They deliver chaotic, short bursts of grinding fury from the Andalusian coast.
Brutal death-grind-deathcore act from Perm in the Urals, formed in 2021. CoproCobra delivers visceral, multi-faceted extremity.
Death metal and grindcore band from Ruse, Bulgaria, formed in 2021. They deliver a putrid cocktail of grinding death metal from the banks of the Danube, embracing the genre's most extreme and visceral elements.
Oklahoma's Coprophagist bring death metal extremity to Tahlequah, a town far from the genre's traditional urban hubs but no less committed to ferocious, no-compromise brutality. Their existence is a testament to death metal's deep reach into American regional scenes.
Ohio's Coprophagy combine death metal's anatomical horror fixation with grindcore's appetite for speed and brevity, producing short blasts of extremity from the Midwest underground. Their music is blunt, foul, and exactly as aggressive as their name suggests.
Brutal death-grind act from Rome, formed in 2019. Coprophiliac delivers visceral, unrelenting extremity rooted in goregrind traditions.
Corchazo is a death metal and grindcore band from Montevideo, Uruguay, who released their debut demo in May 2025. The six-track self-titled demo spans grinding hardcore punk and deathgrind territory, including tracks such as "Mi Infierno" and a series of numbered "Corchazo" cuts. They are among the newest entries in Montevideo's underground extreme metal scene.
Aurora, Illinois outfit blending doom and traditional heavy metal into crushing, atmosphere-laden compositions. Expect thick riffs and a dark, vintage heaviness.
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