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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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New York's Shiro-Ishii — named for the Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731 commander — combines technical death metal's surgical precision with grindcore's convulsive brutality, making for a relentlessly punishing and disturbing listen since 2018.
Mechanicsville, Maryland's Shit deals in death-laced grindcore with zero pretense, trading in short, furious blasts of extreme noise that sit comfortably in the American underground's most uncompromising corners since 2016.
Shit Infested Roach Human Carcass practice grind 'n' roll from Nachod with the kind of gleefully repulsive aesthetic that their name suggests. Formed in 2024, they channel the absurdist, shock-value tradition of grindcore into short, nasty bursts of noise.
Detroit's Shit Life plays grindcore with the working-class fury and industrial-city grime that the genre demands, adding another raw and punishing voice to Motor City's long tradition of extreme underground music since 2017.
El Paso's Shitbear has been combining death metal's brutality, thrash's speed, and grindcore's intensity since 2011, forging an ugly, unpretentious extreme metal attack that reflects the border city's grinding underground energy.
Kentucky's Shitkluster push brutal death metal and grindcore through the angular filter of djent, arriving at a dissonant, technically precise kind of brutality that refuses to sit still — formed in 2015 and perpetually refusing to be categorized.
Emerging from the tiny commune of Saint-Cyr-des-Gats in 2006, Shitoitsu delivers grindcore blasts from one of the most improbable rural locations in the French extreme music underground. Their relentless sonic assault proves that ferocious grind can germinate anywhere.
Oakland's Shitty Fucker have been grinding out their Bay Area blend of death/thrash and grindcore since 2017, drawing on the region's long tradition of aggressive, politically charged underground metal with an unpolished, high-energy assault.
Formed in Detroit in 2023, Shivers channel the city's long history of unrelenting extremity into a goregrind and death metal assault — visceral, low-fidelity, and built for maximum discomfort.
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