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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.
A Little Rock, Arkansas act born in 2021, Shitfire fuse the crawling weight of doom with sludge's nasty low-end aggression, channeling the swampy heaviness of the mid-South into dense, slow-burning walls of distortion.
Detroit's Shitfucker have been weaponizing the intersection of black, death, and thrash metal since 2005, lacing their filth-encrusted attack with punk belligerence — a Motor City band that sounds like it was dragged out of a dumpster fire and handed a guitar.
A New Hampshire black/thrash outfit that emerged in 2023, Shithammered deal in the kind of speed-driven, primitive extremity where tremolo-picked chaos meets Teutonic thrash aggression — short on subtlety, long on destruction.
A New York act founded in 2014, ShitKill blend groove metal's chunky, riff-forward momentum with thrash's velocity, crafting a muscular hybrid sound rooted in the aggressive traditions of the Northeast underground.
Kentucky's Shitkluster push brutal death metal and grindcore through the angular filter of djent, arriving at a dissonant, technically precise kind of brutality that refuses to sit still — formed in 2015 and perpetually refusing to be categorized.
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