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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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Death metal band from Olean, New York, formed in 2023, bringing a no-nonsense approach to brutality from a small upstate city with deep blue-collar roots.
Buffalo melodic death metal band active since 2012, blending the snarl and weight of death metal with melodic sensibility from a Great Lakes city with a fierce and underappreciated metal underground.
New York's Sire Languish is one of the newest acts in this index, formed in 2025, pushing experimental black and death metal into unconventional territory with an approach that resists genre rigidity from the outset.
An Albany, New York-based technical death metal outfit formed in 2022, Skeptic pursues the labyrinthine compositional complexity the genre demands — intricate riffing and rhythmic precision in service of an unyielding sonic assault.
Rochester, New York's Skingraft emerged in 2023 as a death metal act built on the upstate underground, channeling the brutal, stripped-down intensity that defines the region's DIY metal tradition.
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.
Buffalo's Skrotum emerged in 2020 playing in the goregrind and brutal death metal tradition, favoring grotesque lyrical territory and the kind of blastbeat-driven, gore-drenched intensity that the genre demands.
Formed in Endicott, New York in 2017, Skud is a death metal band operating in the grimy upstate New York underground, delivering the straightforward, skull-cracking style the genre's traditional fans expect.
Brooklyn's Skullshitter have been grinding since 2012, blending grindcore's short-fuse violence with death metal's guttural density into a distinctly New York City-styled assault. Their Bandcamp output reflects a band committed to brevity and brutality in equal measure.
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