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Death metal and grindcore band from Douchy-les-Mines, France, active since 2015, delivering putrid, rotting extremity from the Nord department. They wallow in the grotesque traditions of death-grind.
Death metal and goregrind act from France, formed in 2023, dealing in the most deliberately offensive and extreme forms of grindcore. They push the boundaries of taste with visceral sonic violence.
A Saarland grindcore-death project since 2020, Putrid Scum delivers exactly the filthy, uncompromising extremity their name advertises. Their location in Germany's smallest state concentrates their aggression into dense, explosive bursts.
Dayton, Ohio's Putrid Stu is a goregrind and brutal death metal project that leans hard into the absurdist, splatter-film side of the genre — a one-person or small-band affair that has been churning out crude, blasting extremity since 2018. The Dayton underground has produced some fierce acts, and Putrid Stu fits squarely in that tradition of low-budget, high-intensity noise.
Green Bay, Wisconsin's Putrilence is a very new act formed in 2024 that straddles goregrind and slam/brutal death metal — their Bandcamp handle putrilenceslam makes the priority clear. The band's Metal Archives genre description shows an evolution already in progress, moving from gore-influenced death toward the heavier, more structured brutality of slam.
Grindcore band from Bilbao, Spain, formed in 2014, dealing in rapid-fire blasts of extreme sonic violence from the Basque Country. Their provocative name matches the deliberately crude nature of their grindcore.
Houston's Pyosisified traffics in the most putrid end of goregrind, delivering blasts of visceral, medically themed carnage rooted in the city's long tradition of extreme underground brutality since forming in 2020.
El Paso's Pyretic tear through a caustic blend of death metal and grindcore, combining ferocious blasting tempos with riff-first brutality that reflects the raw, uncompromising spirit of the Southwest underground since their 2017 formation.
Pútrido is a grindcore band from Mauá, São Paulo, formed by guitarist and vocalist Bruno Teixeira of Desalmado alongside vocalist Carlos Silvério and drummer Anderson Leonardo, both from Aftermath. Their debut EP Justiça? — seven tracks across 13 minutes — was released on February 10, 2023 after years of interrupted recordings, with all production handled in studios within Mauá.
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