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Rimini-based death metal and grindcore outfit formed in 2018, unleashing grinding blastbeats and guttural brutality from Italy's Adriatic coast. Their punishing sonic assault draws from the tradition of extreme music's most visceral subgenres.
Ithaca, Texas grindcore project delivering short, violent blasts of noise-laced extremity. Creator|Destroyer operates in the tradition of grind that sees brevity as a weapon.
Minnesota's Cremated blast through brutal death metal and grindcore with relentless speed and gory low-end punishment. The Lakeville act grinds bones to powder with blastbeats and cavernous downtuned savagery.
Ferocious Heavy / Thrash Metal from Houston.
Crematorio is one of Argentina's pioneering death metal and grindcore bands, active in Tigre, Buenos Aires since the early 1990s alongside fellow scene originators Exterminio and Scud. Their first full-length, "El Rostro de la Opresión", appeared in 1995 and established their focus on themes of social corruption and gore; the band continued releasing material across multiple active periods and issued a reissue of the album through Careless Records.
El Paso's Crematory Digestor churn out filthy death metal and grindcore from the Texas-Mexico borderland underground. Their music is unrelenting and grimy, rooted in the low-budget brutality of regional extreme metal.
Salt Lake City's Crepusculum combine the relentless grind of grindcore with death metal's morbid density, emerging from Utah's small but ferocious extreme metal community. Their output is fast, brutal, and uncompromising.
St. Louis brutal death/slam outfit Crescent Shaped Corpse specialize in bowel-churning low-end devastation and squealing pinch harmonics. They are among Missouri's heaviest practitioners of slam-oriented death metal extremity.
San Jose's Cretin are a grind/death institution fronted by vocalist Marissa Martinez, one of the most distinctive voices in the underground. Their music is whiplash-fast and viciously articulate, earning a devoted following since the early 2000s.
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