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Chicago death metal and grindcore band formed in 2015, operating within the city's deep-rooted tradition of extreme music and drawing on both genres' shared appetite for speed, brutality, and lyrical grotesquerie.
American brutal death metal and goregrind project formed in 2020, doubling down on the most viscerally extreme end of the death metal spectrum with hyper-blasted tempos, guttural vocal extremity, and gore-fixated imagery drawn from the goregrind tradition.
Brutal death metal and goregrind band from Perm, Russia, formed in 2016, dealing in rotting corpse-themed extremity from the Ural region. They bring nearly a decade of putrid violence.
Death metal and grindcore band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2020, worshipping at the altar of putrefaction through grinding death metal. They bring rotting extremity to the Portuguese capital.
Baltimore goregrind project Putricine launched in 2023 and wastes no time on formality, delivering short blasts of splatter-obsessed grind that fit neatly into the city's long tradition of extreme underground acts. Their sound is rooted in the classic goregrind template — churning low-tuned guitars, blast drums, and horror-pathology vocal delivery.
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.
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