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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/09 @ Mr Smalls Theatre, Millvale
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Rochester's Hallucination Realized play grindcore with the frantic urgency the format demands — short, explosive, and loud enough to rattle teeth. Part of a small but active upstate New York extreme underground since 2018.
Named with sardonic humor, Dover, Pennsylvania's Hamilton Fish have been grinding out death metal and grindcore since 2019 — short, vicious songs that waste no time and take no prisoners.
Fresno's Hands That Kill arrived in 2025 swinging a chaotic three-way hybrid of death metal, thrash, and grindcore — short, fast, and built to draw blood from the first second.
Don't let the name fool you — Dyer, Indiana's Handsome Prick play brutally earnest grindcore and death metal, delivering short blasts of punishing noise with zero irony since 2016.
Painesville, Ohio's Hangnail have been grinding away since 1998, their thrash and grindcore roots keeping them lean and mean across nearly three decades of relentless, no-frills extremity.
New Orleans' Hangnail have dealt in death metal and grindcore since 1998, pairing the city's swampy, heavy undercurrent with the kind of blasting ferocity that demands short, vicious songs.
Happy Farm is a death metal/grindcore band from Porto, Portugal, active since 2025 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Thrash crossover act from the Catalan town of Roda de Ter, newly formed in 2025. Their primate-themed name suits a raw, energetic approach blending thrash metal velocity with hardcore punk attitude.
Crossover/grindcore/thrash metal band from Torrelavega, Spain, active since 2014. Their volatile fusion of crossover punk, grindcore brevity, and thrash speed erupts from the Cantabrian coast.
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