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· 2020–present · active
New York brutal death and slam act formed in 2020, built on the genre's signature down-tuned groove and guttural vocal attack, representing the thriving East Coast slam underground.
· 2019–present · active
New York's Castigate operate firmly in brutal death metal territory, prioritizing gore-drenched guttural vocals and relentlessly technical riffing over any melodic concession.
· 2022–present · active
New York's Copremesis specialize in brutal death metal that pushes aggression and technical extremity to their outer limits, drawing on the state's deep well of uncompromising extreme music. Their releases are exercises in maximum brutality without apology.
Smithtown · 2010–present · active
Long Island's Cordectomy deliver brutal death metal from Smithtown with the unrelenting bluntness the genre demands — dense riffing, guttural vocals, and a singular commitment to heaviness over technique. They're a strong entry in New York's ferocious brutal death underground.
Long Island · 2016–present · active
Long Island brutal death metal band bringing medically-themed gore and grinding intensity to the New York underground. Their music is dense, fast, and unrelentingly brutal.
Endicott · 2018–present · active
Endicott, New York brutal death metal outfit Course of Extinction deal in relentless blast-beat-driven carnage with no interest in melody or restraint. Their music exists to overwhelm, built for devotees of the most uncompromising end of the death metal spectrum.
Rochester · 2008–present · active
Rochester's Damn Chili serve up goregrind and brutal death metal with the kind of absurdist irreverence the subgenre demands, fusing surgical heaviness with gleeful grotesquery since 2008. They lean fully into the nastier end of the underground, with no apologies.
Yonkers · 2014–present · active
Yonkers' Decapitating Devastation emerged in 2014 as a straightforward proposition: brutal death metal with maximum density and zero compromise. New York's history of no-nonsense extremity courses through every pulverizing riff.
Floral Park · 2016–present · active
Floral Park, New York's Dehumanized are a brutal death metal institution — their Metal-Archives number (2241) marks them as veterans who predate the internet-era scene, even if this current iteration formed in 2016. Rooted in the greater New York brutal death tradition that spawned acts like Suffocation, they deliver dense, technically demanding brutality with a lineage behind it.

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