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Say The Phrase (2022)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Donetsk's Steak with Blood pair death metal and grindcore from the conflict-zone city since 2012. Over a decade from the Donbas capital, their culinary-gore name has channeled the rawness of undercooked flesh into compositions of visceral extremity.
Venice's Stench of Profit grind with an anti-capitalist message since 2015. Their politically charged name and Venetian origins create a critique of commerce from one of history's greatest trading cities.
Stiles is a death metal and grindcore project from Lansing, Michigan, formed in 2012. The project operates at the intersection of grinds short, blasting intensity and death metal's more deliberately brutal compositional sensibility.
Michigan grindcore and death metal band formed in 2025, blending the speed and aggression of grind with the sonic brutality of death metal in early-stage releases.
New Philadelphia, Ohio act formed in 2023 that combines death metal, grindcore, and crossover thrash into a fast and abrasive style typical of the genre's more chaotic fringe.
Heerenveen's Stoma grind from the Frisian town since 2013. Their medical name referencing surgical openings and their northern Dutch origins channel clinical imagery into bursts of grindcore extremity.
Stoner Witch is an unusual hybrid act from San Antonio, Texas, formed in 2010, fusing the slow, hazy heaviness of stoner/doom metal with the blasting extremity of grindcore into an abrasive and unpredictable sound.
Stormcrow is an Oakland, California band formed in 2005 that merges the rawness of crust punk with grinding death metal brutality, earning recognition in underground circles for their ferocious, socially charged material.
Gilbert, Arizona goregrind and brutal death metal outfit formed in 2025, combining the frenzied extremity of goregrind with the crushing density of brutal death metal.
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