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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Slon grind through short, explosive bursts from Bonn, channeling grindcore's tradition of maximum intensity in minimum time. Active since 2018, they bring chaotic aggression to the former German capital.
Baltimore's Sloth Herder collide black metal's corrosive blast with grindcore's ferocious brevity, producing music that is simultaneously overwhelming in speed and density since 2012. Their hybrid attack places them among Maryland's most confrontational extreme metal acts.
Slugbeast grind goregrind from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2019. Their mollusk-monster portmanteau channels the grotesquerie of slug-creature hybrids into compositions of anonymous, compact extremity.
Greenville, South Carolina band formed in 2022 blending grindcore, death metal, and crust punk into a furious, politically-charged noise assault in the tradition of Southern hardcore-metal crossover.
Slund merge sludge, doom, and grindcore from an undisclosed Slovenian location since 2017. Their sludge-derived truncation channels the compressed weight of corrosive metal into compositions of anonymous, genre-crossing heaviness.
Smirnoff blast through death metal and grindcore from the tiny Thuringian village of Frauenpriessnitz, proving that extreme metal can emerge from even the most obscure German hamlets. Active since 2012, their vodka-brand name adds absurdist humor to their grinding assault.
Smoldering Torso is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Santa Venetia, California, formed in 2022, delivering relentlessly savage music that combines grindcore's speed and brevity with the gut-punching brutality of BDMG extremity.
Sneezing Pus grind through goregrind from the Spanish underground, channeling the subgenre's trademark grotesque humor and sonic extremity. Formed in 2019, they bring bodily-fluid-themed brutality to the Iberian extreme scene.
Los Angeles grindcore band active since 1996, one of the longer-running acts in the Southern California extreme underground, committed to the blast-beat intensity of the genre across their career.
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