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Rochester · 1997–present · active
Rochester, New York black metal and grindcore hybrid. Western New York extremity spanning the spectrum from blast beats to tremolo picking.
New York City · 2003–present · active
New York City grindcore project. The inverted nature documentary name captures grind's misanthropic worldview.
Buffalo · 2018–present · active
Buffalo, New York grindcore outfit with three releases since 2018. Their full-length Architects of Aggression and split with Ruin establish them as key players in Western New York's extreme music scene, delivering the rapid-fire violence the genre demands.
Brooklyn, New York City · 2021–present · active
Brooklyn grindcore project grinding away at humanity's pretensions since 2021. Their EPs — Those Who Know Nothing and At the Mercy of the Merciless — deliver rapid-fire violence from New York City's most relentlessly creative borough.
· 2024–present · active
New York City grindcore project whose 2024 EP Vital Transformation delivers rapid-fire extremity from the capital of American underground music. The name — meaning elevation to divine status — applies aspirational grandeur to grindcore's most primal impulses.
Brooklyn, New York City · 2024–present · active
Brooklyn grindcore project whose 2025 album FUNKO POP MUSIC takes aim at consumer culture through grinding extremity. The deliberately provocative title and multilingual approach mark them as part of NYC's newest wave of confrontational heavy music.
· 2019–present · active
New York grindcore act living up to their name with blunt-force sonic punishment, contributing to the city's long tradition of extreme, boundary-pushing heavy music.

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Rochester · 2012–present · active
Rochester, New York grindcore project with fourteen releases since 2012, including two separate 24-hour albums recorded in single sessions. Named after the Greek goddess of mischief, their prolific, time-constrained approach to recording produces some of the most spontaneous extreme music in Western New York.

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