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Say The Phrase (2022)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Splattershy is a slam and brutal death metal band from Newark, Delaware, formed in 2025, one of the most recently active acts in the genre blending the breakdowns of slam with full-bore brutal death extremity.
Texas slam and brutal death metal act Spontaneous Curettage formed in 2024, delivering dense, gore-obsessed extremity rooted in the slam subgenre's tradition of pulverizing rhythms and guttural vocals.
Madison, Wisconsin's Sporadic Impulse emerged in 2024 playing slam and brutal death metal, adding another voice to the Midwest's growing extreme metal underground with gut-wrenching heaviness and percussive brutality.
Boise, Idaho's Spore play slam and brutal death metal, emerging in 2019 with a focus on the suffocating grooves and visceral extremity that define the slam subgenre.
Portland, Oregon's Spume have played slam and brutal death metal since 2017, contributing to the Pacific Northwest's extreme metal community with dense, suffocating heaviness and bone-crushing rhythmic assault.
Ruthless Slam / Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore from Houston.
Sterilized is a slam/brutal death metal band from San Diego, California, formed in 2020. They specialize in the genre's most extreme subdivisions, delivering the grinding breakdowns and guttural intensity characteristic of West Coast slam death metal.
American slam and brutal death metal project active since 2019, specializing in the subgenre's signature low-register, percussive breakdowns and grotesque sonic extremity.
New Hampshire slam and brutal death metal band formed in 2025, embracing the genre's signature down-tuned guitars, guttural vocals, and rhythmically punishing breakdowns.
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