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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Gulfport, Mississippi grindcore newcomers Trafficcancer formed in 2025 and immediately dove into the genre's most abrasive end, offering blastbeat-driven chaos from an unlikely corner of the American South.
Transnational Dying Phallus from Pantin in the Paris suburbs have been delivering death metal and grindcore under one of extreme music's most provocative band names since 2001. Over two decades of boundary-pushing compositions from the Seine-Saint-Denis banlieue have established them as gloriously confrontational fixtures of the French grind underground.
Trap Them are a grindcore and crust punk powerhouse whose blistering, d-beat-informed attack has made them one of the more ferocious acts in American extreme music — raw, politically charged, and uncompromisingly abrasive.
Trauma Bond is a grindcore band from London, formed in 2021. Their psychologically-charged name suits the intense, cathartic blasts of grindcore they deliver.
Portland death-grind trio active since 2018, fusing the blunt brutality of grindcore with death metal heft and hardcore's confrontational attitude. Their name and approach are blunt instruments by design.
Colorado Springs outfit blending death metal brutality, sludge's tar-thick low end, and grindcore's blunt violence into a dense, punishing whole since 2019. One of the heavier acts to emerge from the Colorado Springs scene.
Ohio brutal death metal and grindcore act formed in 2020, dealing in short, violent bursts of distorted noise with the surgical precision of death metal riffing beneath the chaos. Their name does not oversell the filth.
Detroit's Trespass arrived in 2022 with a violent conflation of black metal, death metal, and grindcore — the kind of short, caustic eruptions that prioritize kinetic damage over nuance. In a city with deep roots in extreme music, they fit naturally into a lineage of no-mercy heaviness.
Dallas death/grind act Triage have been trading in punishing, medically-themed aggression since 2020 — their Bandcamp handle "triage666" making plain the irreverent extremity of the project. They represent the Texas scene's appetite for short, brutally efficient metal that wastes nothing and forgives nothing.
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