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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Saint Paul's Daigoro tear through the intersection of death metal brutality and grindcore velocity with thrash-sharpened riffs that refuse to let up. Formed in 2017, they bring a frantic, no-frills aggression to the Twin Cities underground.
Rochester's Damn Chili serve up goregrind and brutal death metal with the kind of absurdist irreverence the subgenre demands, fusing surgical heaviness with gleeful grotesquery since 2008. They lean fully into the nastier end of the underground, with no apologies.
Damn Nation plays death metal and grindcore from Lille in northern France, formed in 2025 and delivering rapid-fire extremity from the industrial heart of French Flanders. Their damning name channels righteous fury into microsecond bursts of sonic violence.
Formed in Delaware in 2020, Damnations Domain weaponizes the abrasive collision of death metal and grindcore, packaging maximum brutality into short, punishing blasts. No atmosphere, no mercy — just feral sonic destruction.
Hailing from Menifee, California, Damnum sculpt atmospheric black metal that trades in grief and grandeur in equal measure, letting melancholy melodies ripple beneath a fog of dissonance. The project has been releasing emotionally charged work since its 2019 formation.
Roselle Park, New Jersey's Danny Tanner have been mining the most depraved overlap of death metal and grindcore since 2007, their absurdist name concealing genuinely vicious music. Short songs, maximum damage — and the joke lands every time.
Hudson, New York's Dark Fate are something of a shape-shifter — their history spans death metal, grindcore, thrash, groove, and traditional heavy metal, a genre-wandering evolution that makes them genuinely hard to pin down. Two decades of mutation with a riff always at the center.
Dark Goat is a Catanian blackened death metal and grindcore act that blends the ferocity of black metal with punishing death metal brutality, wrapping it in gloomy atmospheres and razor-sharp riffs. Their prolific catalog spans releases like God is Dead, Nocturnus Impaler, and a cover of Mayhem's "Freezing Moon," anchored by lyrics fixated on darkness, blasphemy, and destruction.
Dark Serpent merges death metal's guttural extremity with the hyperkinetic tempo of grindcore, producing short, savage bursts of sonic violence. Their Italian underground roots show in a raw production style that prioritizes visceral impact over studio polish.
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