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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Supplication is a death metal and grindcore band from the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, active since 2004 and delivering the relentless, caustic aggression that has defined their corner of the New England underground for two decades.
Surachai is a Chicago multi-genre project formed in 2011 by musician Surachai Sutthisasanakul, spanning noise, grindcore, ambient, progressive metal, and black metal across a prolific discography that resists easy categorization.
Surgery is a brutal death metal band from Tallahassee, Florida, formed in 2015 and operating in the tradition of Florida's storied death metal scene with an emphasis on unrelenting speed and surgical-grade heaviness.
Swamp Gas is a death metal and grindcore band from Everglades City, Florida, formed in 2011, unleashing blasts of putrid extremity that evoke the remote and unforgiving wilderness of the deep Everglades.
Swamp King is a grindcore and goregrind act from Lawton, Oklahoma, formed in 2021, combining blast-beat driven ferocity with the gore-soaked grotesquerie of the goregrind tradition.
Los Angeles death metal and grindcore band formed in 2017, beginning with a raw grindcore and death metal attack before evolving into a more death/black metal direction, combining brutality and ferocity throughout their catalog.
SweatCollector is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Uniontown, Pennsylvania, formed in 2024, delivering slam-infused brutality and blastbeat-driven extremity.
Minneapolis goregrind outfit Sweatpants Boner formed in 2022, operating firmly in the absurdist wing of the genre with short, blasting tracks and characteristically irreverent humor.
Nashville outfit formed in 2022 that mashes together sludge metal's crushing low-end, powerviolence urgency, and power metal's aggression into a deliberately abrasive and genre-defiant sound.
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