10,000 Rambos is a grindcore and hardcore punk band from Cleveland, Ohio, active since 2015 and consistently prolific. Across four full-lengths and an EP — from their self-titled debut through 2025's "World War IV" — the band delivers short, caustic bursts of politically charged grindcore with a hardcore punk backbone. Their discography is a relentless document of fury, tackling societal rot with the speed and brevity the genre demands.

Cleveland, Ohio grindcore project. The name — meaning worn away by friction — captures grindcore's essential abrasiveness.

Ohio grindcore project whose 2024 split with Tomb Perfume channels botanical grotesquerie through grinding extremity. Named after a real organism that shoots spore masses — a perfect metaphor for their explosive sound.

Dayton's Cheap Gas smashes black metal, crust punk, and grindcore into a filthy, high-speed collision that prioritizes ferocity and brevity above all else. Their sound is as blunt and unrefined as the industrial Midwestern city they come from.

Dayton, Ohio's Chronic Demise operates in the grinding intersection of death metal and grindcore, favoring speed, blasting, and concise bursts of brutality. Their music draws from the Midwest's tradition of keeping extreme metal gritty and unpretentious.

Cincinnati's Clouded merge grindcore's speed with sludge metal's suffocating weight, drawing from a web of overlapping Ohio underground projects. Their early releases, including a 2016 split with Ethicist, showcase a band comfortable in filth.

Ohio's Coprophagy combine death metal's anatomical horror fixation with grindcore's appetite for speed and brevity, producing short blasts of extremity from the Midwest underground. Their music is blunt, foul, and exactly as aggressive as their name suggests.

Findlay, Ohio's Crypt Tongue blend the blasting chaos of grindcore with death metal's tonal brutality, resulting in fast, ferocious music with little patience for subtlety. Their sets leave little time to breathe.

Mingo Junction, Ohio's Cryptic Abuse smash together brutal death metal and grindcore into relentlessly punishing music from the heart of the rust belt underground. Their recordings are deliberately unclean, prioritizing crushing impact over studio gloss.