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A 2022 addition to Seattle's extreme underground, Maggot Grinder weaponize death metal and grindcore into something dense and fast — quick songs built to leave a mark, not a melody. The Pacific Northwest crust is baked into every track.
A goregrind project from Sweden, Maggot Infested Ventriculus has been delivering grotesque extremity since 2017. The project channels the most repulsive medical imagery into short, visceral blasts of noise.
Maggot Shoes is a death metal/grindcore band from Nuremberg, Germany, founded in 1993 by bassist Alex and guitarist Kevin with roots in the local crust punk scene. Their discography spans from the 2005 debut "A Shoe Full of Maggots" through demos and releases blending crust, grindcore, and death metal into short, savage bursts.
Savage Goregrind from Austin.
Maggots is a grindcore band from Schwyz, Switzerland, active since 2001, delivering blasts of chaotic, high-speed extremity rooted in the Swiss underground. Their short, punishing bursts of noise and aggression follow in the tradition of European grindcore's most unrelenting practitioners.
Maggots in Your Coffin is an extreme metal project from Lahti, Finland, formed in 1999. Operating as a duo, they have maintained a prolific underground output spanning demo recordings from 1999 through 2015, including 'Resurrected Flesh' (2006), 'The Gate' (2010), and 'Murderous Freaks' (2015), plus the release 'Extermination.'
Tucson's Magguts drag death metal and grindcore through the desert dust, conjuring something dehydrated and violent from the Sonoran underground. Active since 2013, they've refined a sound as harsh and unforgiving as the Arizona sun.
Bards of Dusk is a Hungarian black metal project formed in 2020, channeling nocturnal themes into atmospheric compositions. The project operates from an undisclosed location, maintaining the anonymity common to the genre.
Magrudergrind formed in Washington, DC in September 2002, building a relentless noise-core and grindcore attack from their early primitive demo phase through increasingly refined recordings. The band released a self-titled album on Willowtip Records in 2009 and followed it with II (2016) on Relapse Records, recorded with producer Kurt Ballou at Godcity Studio, which incorporated sharper thrash riffing alongside their characteristic blast-beat brutality. Now based in Brooklyn, the band has remained active through consistent lineup changes over more than two decades.
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