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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Pittsburgh's E.F.6 tears through the intersection of death metal and goregrind with blunt-force efficiency, formed in 2018 and operating in a city with a long tradition of underground extremity.
Crossover act from Germany fusing death metal and grindcore in a chaotic sonic assault since 2025. Their approach channels the most extreme elements of each genre into a relentless, genre-defying barrage.
Tucson's Earacher does exactly what grindcore should — short, loud, punishing — and has been delivering that prescription since 2018 from one of the Southwest's most underrated underground scenes.
Chicago's Earthburner is a death metal and grindcore project that launched in 2024, joining one of the country's strongest underground metal cities with a genre combination designed to do maximum damage in minimum time.
East West Blast Test is a collaborative grindcore and power violence project formed in 1999, pairing drummer Dave Witte (Burnt by the Sun, Human Remains) on the East Coast with multi-instrumentalist Chris Dodge (Spazz) on the West Coast, assembling material via mailed tapes. Their self-titled debut (2003) stacked jazz-noise, thrash, and hardcore into 27 rapid-fire tracks, with guests including Municipal Waste's Tony Foresta and Faith No More's Dean Menta. A second album, Popular Music for Unpopular People, raised the chaos further on Ipecac Recordings.
Out of Ojai, California since 2019, this band lives at the collision point of grindcore, death metal, and powerviolence — short songs, maximum hostility, zero tolerance for restraint.
A Ventura, California death-grind act with over a decade behind them, Eat the Living has consistently delivered the kind of gore-soaked, blast-heavy brutality their name promises.
Lucas, Texas grindcore since 2014 — Eaten keeps it short, fast, and punishing, with the kind of no-frills approach that made grind powerful in the first place.
Worcester's answer to the grind underground, this Massachusetts incarnation of Eaten has been active since 2014 playing the same blunt, high-velocity style that defined the genre's DIY roots.
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