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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Casa Grande, Arizona act bridging death metal and grindcore with disgust-fueled riffing and a splatter-obsessed aesthetic that nods to the nastier end of goregrind.
Death metal and grindcore band from Barcelona, Spain, emerging in 2025. They deliver chaotic grinding extremity from the Catalan scene.
New York's Castigate operate firmly in brutal death metal territory, prioritizing gore-drenched guttural vocals and relentlessly technical riffing over any melodic concession.
Philadelphia's Castle Freak lean into the noise and chaos of grindcore while keeping one foot in death metal's structural sensibility, delivering brief, violent bursts of grinding extremity.
North Carolina death metal/grindcore act combining brutal death metal heaviness with the relentless blasting tempos and savage brevity of grindcore.
Death metal and grindcore band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2011. They channel chaotic grinding extremity from the Finnish capital.
Cataract Stare is a San Diego oddity pairing the hyper-blasted ferocity of grindcore with the bombastic melody and theatrical energy of power metal, resulting in a chaotic yet surprisingly catchy sound. Short song lengths and velocity are weaponized against pompous epic structures.
Catchfire from Birmingham merges the hyper-speed brutality of grindcore with death metal's down-tuned heaviness, producing short, violent songs that burn out in blasts of noise and aggression. Alabama's underground history of extreme music informs their no-frills extremity.
Huntington Beach extreme metal collective fusing black metal, death metal, grindcore, and sludge into a chaotic, genre-defying hybrid that resists easy categorization.
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