Explore California Metal
Featured Album
Death's Forgotten Children (2023)
Featured Death Metal Album
Necromanteum (2023)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
05/12 @ The Basement East, Nashville
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
From Days Unto Darkness (2019)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Sodomizing the Dead is a death/thrash and grindcore band from Lynwood, California, formed in 2014, channeling the abrasive energy of Southern California's extreme metal underground through a punishing crossover of brutality and speed.
Sooper Spooki are a California black metal and goregrind project formed in 2020, merging the lo-fi atmospherics of raw black metal with the speed and grotesque imagery of grindcore in a deliberately irreverent package.
Sores for Days are a grindcore band from San Luis Obispo, California, formed in 2023, delivering the short, blasting, aggressive extremity the genre demands from the Central Coast's tight-knit underground scene.
Soul Waster is a Los Angeles band formed in 2019 that combines grindcore's ferocity with thrash metal's riff-driven aggression. Their crossover approach channels the raw speed and punk-inflected energy that defines the LA extreme underground.
Splattered is a brutal death metal band from Fremont, California, formed in 2012, delivering technically precise and viscerally punishing brutal death with deep roots in the Bay Area's extreme metal scene.
SplatterFace is a death metal and goregrind band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2018, trafficking in gore-soaked extremity with the irreverent spirit typical of Southern California's prolific underground splatter scene.
Standing on a Floor of Bodies is a San Francisco, California brutal death metal and grindcore band formed in 2010, unleashing gory, technically precise extremity from one of the West Coast's most active underground metal cities.
Stormcrow is an Oakland, California band formed in 2005 that merges the rawness of crust punk with grinding death metal brutality, earning recognition in underground circles for their ferocious, socially charged material.
Long Beach, California sludge metal and grindcore band formed in 2013, merging the suffocating weight of sludge with the blistering tempos and noise of grindcore.
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