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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.
Chicago's Harpoon bring the controlled chaos of grindcore to the thrash metal framework, producing music that's fast, violent, and barely contained since 2014. Their sound has the aggression of both genres and the patience of neither.
Worcester, Massachusetts's Harvest Manipulation weaponize black metal, death metal, and grindcore into a chaotic, multi-headed assault that refuses to stay within any single genre's borders. Active since 2018, they operate in the most extreme margins of the heavy underground.
Pennsylvania's Hashgrinder emerged from the Poconos in 2015 fusing death metal's grotesque power with grindcore's short-fuse aggression. Their approach is blunt and efficient — songs that hit hard and end before the bruise has time to form.
Los Angeles's Hate for Humanity have been waging short, concentrated grindcore attacks since 2020 out of the San Fernando Valley. Blunt, fast, and abrasive — very much a product of LA's dense underground extreme scene.
New Orleans's Hate Seed arrived in 2019 carrying death metal into a city already thick with extreme music traditions. The NOLA atmosphere lends the music a murky, humid quality — death metal soaked in bayou air.
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