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Milwaukee's Shit Outta Luck blends heavy metal muscle with stoner rock's riff-first sensibility and hard rock swagger, making them a natural fit for the Wisconsin bar-circuit heavy sound since 2012.
San Clemente, California's Shit Wizard merges black and death metal with a nihilistic, lo-fi edge, building a reputation in the Southern California underground for unfiltered, filthy extreme metal since 2012.
Death metal and hardcore band from Guarulhos, São Paulo, formed in 2020, with a lineup of Vicente Moreno on guitar and vocals, Kleber Hora on guitar, Tiago Grilli on bass, and Osmar Jr on drums. The band released a self-titled EP through their Bandcamp page and made their live debut at NVS Studio & Pub.
Burlington, Vermont's Shitangel throws black, death, and thrash into a single caustic blender, emerging as one of the more abrasively minded acts in the New England underground with an irreverent approach to extreme metal since 2019.
Crushing Sludge Metal out of Texas.
El Paso's Shitbear has been combining death metal's brutality, thrash's speed, and grindcore's intensity since 2011, forging an ugly, unpretentious extreme metal attack that reflects the border city's grinding underground energy.
Shitbox deal in death metal from Karlsruhe, bringing no-frills extremity with the crude directness their name promises. Active since 2012, they channel the genre's most unpretentious, brutal impulses.
A Salt Lake City sludge metal outfit formed in 2020, Shitchrist drag their sound through the muck with slow, punishment-heavy riffs and an abrasive, confrontational edge typical of the American underground sludge scene.
Hailing from Erie, Pennsylvania, Shitestrom have been carving out their brand of raw, corrosive black metal since 2010, drawing on the bleak industrial landscape of the Great Lakes region to fuel a decade-plus of grim, uncompromising output.
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