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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Splatterhouse is a death metal and grindcore band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2016, named after the classic horror arcade game and operating in the Pacific Northwest's fertile extreme metal underground.
Detroit, Michigan goregrind band Squalid trace their origins back to 1985, making them one of the longer-running acts in the city's extreme underground with decades of gory, blast-driven aggression.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Squalor have played death metal and grindcore since 2010, merging the brutality of both genres into a relentlessly abrasive sound rooted in the mid-Atlantic underground.
Waterbury, Connecticut goregrind band Squashed Beef formed in 2020, embracing the genre's irreverent extremity and splatter-themed aesthetic with blasting drums and guttural, pitch-shifted vocals.
SSS (Short Sharp Shock) formed in Liverpool, England in 2005, delivering a high-velocity crossover thrash sound shaped equally by hardcore punk, thrash metal, and grindcore. Signing to Earache Records, the band released The Dividing Line (2008) and Problems to the Answer (2011) before concluding their career with Limp. Gasp. Collapse. (2014) on Prosthetic Records. SSS operated at the more abrasive end of the British crossover revival, with a commitment to brevity and brutality that aligned them with the grindcore underground as much as the thrash audience. The band subsequently went on indefinite hold.
Stabbed is a Long Island, New York death metal and grindcore band formed in 2016, fusing the blasting ferocity of grindcore with the surgical brutality of death metal.
Stabbed in the Face is a Detroit, Michigan death metal and grindcore band formed in 2015, channeling the city's long tradition of extreme music into short, violent bursts of gore-drenched brutality.
Rome's Staccionata pair grindcore with stoner metal since 2026. Their Italian name meaning "fence" and unlikely genre fusion create one of the more idiosyncratic combinations in the Roman underground.
Stammer is a death metal and grindcore band from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, formed in 2024, delivering short, explosive blasts of extremity that fuse grindcore's velocity with death metal's low-end brutality.
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