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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/09 @ Mr Smalls Theatre, Millvale
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Nevada death metal act Baby Autopsy leans into the deliberately confrontational naming tradition of the genre, an active project since 2022 in the sparse but determined underground metal community of the desert Southwest.
Barbaric Exsanguination operates in the punishing overlap of slam and brutal death metal, with a 2024 compilation appearance on Liminal Dread Productions' Heavy for the Hollers marking their entry into the underground.
Collinsville, Illinois act Barbed Wire Sandwich occupies the convergence of slam, brutal death metal, and deathcore, bringing the genre's most physically punishing characteristics together under one deliberately confrontational name.
San Antonio, Texas slam/brutal death metal band Basement Burial formed in 2023, delivering the subgenre's hallmark combination of pulverizing rhythms and extreme subject matter.
Cadaveric Resin is a Chilean slam/brutal death metal and goregrind project consisting of Raniit4 on vocals and drum programming, and Myiasis on bass and guitars. The duo released their debut full-length "Mucosa from the Eye Sockets" in April 2025 through Ultra Noisy Shit Prods., a 12-track effort recorded and mastered at Miasmatic Myiasis Studio.
Bakersfield, California slam/brutal death metal band formed in 2024, a new entry in the West Coast extreme metal underground.
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band taking their name from the 1980 horror film and operating in the extreme underground.
New York brutal death and slam act formed in 2020, built on the genre's signature down-tuned groove and guttural vocal attack, representing the thriving East Coast slam underground.
Phoenix slam and brutal death metal band serving up the genre's trademark rhythmic heaviness with a desert-baked intensity since 2017, centering on monolithic, pit-ready breakdowns.
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