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Dog Pack (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Ode to Brinn (2024)
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Saugerties, New York band grinding through death metal and grindcore with short, abrasive blasts of extremity. Rooted firmly in the underground traditions of both genres, they favor speed and rawness.
New York technical death metal and black metal act delivering extreme, precision-built material with genuine underground credibility. Their sound draws on both genres' most demanding technical traditions.
Buffalo, New York death metal act drawing from the raw brutality that western New York's underground has cultivated for decades. Creator Undone hits with deliberate force and unsparing heaviness.
Criminal Element merge death metal's morbid brutality with grindcore's political ferocity from within the Washington D.C. underground. Their sound reflects the confrontational energy of the capital city's extreme music scene.
Syracuse, New York's Criminally Insane combine the gore and brutality of death metal with grindcore's explosive intensity in the tradition of upstate New York's extreme underground. Their music is fast, ugly, and uncompromising.
Long Island death metal band Criticality grind out punishing, technically precise riffs with the no-nonsense brutality the New York underground has long been known for.
Mastic, New York death metal outfit Cross Fade bring Long Island's long tradition of underground death metal brutality to bear with punishing, hook-driven riff work.
Buffalo's Crown Conscious blends the technical complexity of progressive metal with the ferocity of death metal, constructing songs that shift between intricate passages and all-out brutality. They're one of Western New York's more cerebral extreme metal acts.
Saratoga Springs act Crowned push death metal into progressive territory, threading complex time signatures and dynamic song structures through bone-crushing heaviness. Their New York roots show in a no-nonsense directness that grounds the ambition.
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