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psychic behaviors (2021)
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Crushing Grindcore / Death Metal from Austin, Texas (early); Portland, Oregon (later).
Devastating Death Metal from Corpus Christii.
El Paso's Shitbear has been combining death metal's brutality, thrash's speed, and grindcore's intensity since 2011, forging an ugly, unpretentious extreme metal attack that reflects the border city's grinding underground energy.
Relentless Goregrind from Austin, Texas / Pennsylvania.
Ripping Death Metal / Goregrind from Austin.
Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore out of Texas.
Heavy Sludge / Death Metal / Hardcore out of Texas.
Razor-sharp Thrash Metal / Crossover / Hardcore from Houston.
Also from the Houston area, this New Caney-based Skourge (formed 2014) operates at the death metal and grindcore end of the extreme metal spectrum — shorter, faster, and more brutal than their Houston namesake, with grind's trademark disregard for anything resembling polish.
Dallas blackened doom/sludge. Crushing, atmospheric heaviness.
Spazmic is a brutal death metal and goregrind band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 2008, operating at the extreme end of the underground with dense, abrasive recordings that blend the gore-splattered imagery and brutality of the genre's most uncompromising practitioners.
Spinal Remains is a grindcore and death metal band from Conroe, Texas, formed in 2019, blasting through short, venomous songs that tap into the grind tradition while maintaining the heaviness of death metal.
Ruthless Death Metal / Grindcore out of Texas.
Ripping Brutal Death Metal / Grindcore from El Paso.
Stoner Witch is an unusual hybrid act from San Antonio, Texas, formed in 2010, fusing the slow, hazy heaviness of stoner/doom metal with the blasting extremity of grindcore into an abrasive and unpredictable sound.
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