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The Sickening from Birmingham deliver death metal and grindcore with the nausea-inducing intensity their name demands since 2018. Their Second City base channels the Midlands extreme metal tradition through compositions that turn stomachs.
Relentless Technical Grindcore / Mathcore from Allen.
Tulsa's The Unstable emerged in 2022 with a collision of death metal, grindcore, and industrial metal — a relentlessly punishing combination that replaces nuance with mechanical brutality. The industrial elements give their grind a cold, machine-like quality that distinguishes them from straight death-grind peers.
The Walls Concave from Potsdam outside Berlin deliver a claustrophobic fusion of deathcore and grindcore, their name evoking the closing-in sensation of their crushing sound since 2011. Their compositions pair deathcore's breakdown-driven heaviness with grindcore's chaotic velocity from Brandenburg.
Geneva's The Warriors deliver a ferocious blend of death metal and grindcore, keeping songs short, brutal, and unrelenting. Formed in 2019, they represent the newer wave of Swiss extreme metal pushing into blast-beat-driven territory.
The Whole Truth from Nantes deliver death metal and grindcore with the complete, unvarnished honesty their judicial-oath name demands since 2013. Over a decade of truth-telling brutality from the Loire-Atlantique capital has produced compositions of unflinching extremity.
Louisville's Then We Died arrived in 2025 as a collision of raw black metal and grindcore — two forms of extremity that share a contempt for comfort and runtime. Louisville's rich history of heavy and experimental music provides an unexpected but fitting backdrop for a band this intent on sonic destruction.
Theoretic Egoism from Bari deliver death metal and grindcore under a philosophical concept since 2016. A decade of self-interested extremity from the Puglia capital.
Seattle's Theories have been delivering punishing death metal and grindcore under the Bandcamp name "Bashment" since 2014, favoring compressed, high-intensity bursts of sonic violence that sit at the more unrelenting end of Pacific Northwest extreme metal. Their work channels grindcore's economy of length alongside death metal's tonal weight.
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