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Out of Bakersfield, California, Skinjob have been grinding out death metal since 2012 in a city not known for its metal scene, which gives their output a flinty, self-sufficient character that sets them apart from their coastal counterparts.
Skinlab formed in San Francisco, California in 1994, carving out a groove-heavy sound that bridged the aggression of Bay Area thrash with the downtempo churn of early 1990s groove metal and the emerging nu-metal movement. The band's early albums Disembody: The New Flesh and Bound, Gagged and Blindfolded were released with assistance from Robb Flynn of Machine Head, who helped them access the European touring circuit. After disbanding in 2003 and reforming multiple times, Skinlab continued releasing material through the 2000s and 2010s, including The Scars Between Us (2009) and the single Flesh Wounds (2024) on WURMgroup.
Thrash/death metal band from São Paulo, active since 2003, led by guitarist and vocalist André Gubber (also of Pentacrostic and ex-Nervochaos). Their debut album Condemning the Empty Souls (2013) was released by Shinigami Records and featured guest appearances by Fernanda Lira of Nervosa and Luiz Carlos Louzada of Vulcano; the follow-up Dissolved was recorded at Estúdio 44 between March and September 2016 and released in May 2017.
Hailing from Glens Falls, New York, Skinless are one of the defining forces of American brutal death metal — a band that built their reputation on relentlessly heavy riffs, guttural extremity, and over two decades of uncompromising output.
Skinless Bride deliver death metal from an undisclosed Dutch location since 2021. Their disturbing, body-horror name channels macabre imagery into compositions of visceral, uncompromising extremity.
Fort Collins, Colorado's Skinned have been in the brutal death metal game since 1998, making them one of the longer-running outfits in the Mountain West underground — characterized by the kind of thick, punishing riffs that come from years of refinement.
A brand new thrash metal band out of Providence, Rhode Island, Skinned Alive (formed 2025) plant themselves firmly in the crossover tradition of that city's historically active hardcore and punk scene.
San Jose's Skinner, formed in 2022, blend the melodic ambition of power metal with the velocity of thrash — a Bay Area project that draws on the region's rich legacy of high-energy, technically inclined heavy metal.
Heavy Sludge / Death Metal / Hardcore out of Texas.
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