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Denver's Consanguinity are a slam and brutal death metal force, pummeling listeners with low-tuned guttural violence and the kind of caveman-heavy breakdowns that define the American slam underground.
Constriction are a brutal death and slam metal act working at extreme heaviness, deploying drop-tuned gutturals and bone-crushing breakdowns in service of some of the most punishing sounds the subgenre can offer.
Springfield, Missouri's Copulatory Wounding operate in the slam death metal zone, delivering the genre's signature rhythmic brutality and guttural vocal performances with full commitment to the form. Their sound is suffocatingly heavy, built for the underground pit rather than the mainstream.
Elliottsburg, Pennsylvania outfit specializing in the most physically oppressive end of brutal and slam death metal, where breakdowns feel less like transitions and more like cave-ins. Their music is designed to destroy whatever room it's played in.
Covidectomy are a US brutal death/slam deathcore project whose name announces exactly how seriously they take genre conventions. Their music wallows in the most extreme end of slam and brutal death metal, built entirely for fans of maximum grotesque density.
New Jersey slam death metal outfit delivering the bone-crushing breakdowns and guttural extremity the subgenre demands. Dense, low, and relentlessly heavy, their material is built for listeners with a taste for brutality.
Texas slam death metal project wallowing in the subgenre's most extreme end — bowel-deep gutturals, grinding rhythms, and pure sonic grotesquerie. Strictly underground, strictly brutal.
St. Louis brutal death/slam outfit Crescent Shaped Corpse specialize in bowel-churning low-end devastation and squealing pinch harmonics. They are among Missouri's heaviest practitioners of slam-oriented death metal extremity.
Atlanta brutal death and slam act Crime Slug specialize in gutted, ultra-heavy carnage drawn from the most punishing corners of extreme metal. Their music is dense, grotesque, and deeply rooted in the Southern US underground.
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