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AfterDark Label - Extreme Metal label for underground bands
What makes AfterDark Different?
AfterDark Label is an independent, profit-free underground label dedicated to supporting extreme metal and keeping the scene alive for the bands and fans. Focused on raw passion over money, every release is handled with a DIY mindset built around community, creativity, and underground culture.
The label specializes in slam, goregrind, gorenoise, pornogrind, mincecore, brutal death metal, noisecore, and other extreme underground genres, releasing digital albums, Merch, splits, singles, compilations, and physical editions.
AfterDark Label exists to give underground artists a platform to grow together.
Bands Signed to AfterDark
The Darkness starts here...
Meowtilation
Meowtilation is an extreme metal solo project created by musician John Elvis (Nostra Cantus / Land of Souls) in November 2025.
The band naturally moves through subgenres such as Brutal Death Metal, Slam, Grind, Crust, and Technical Death Metal. It combines the modern heaviness of acts like Prostitute Disfigurement, Bloodbath, Vulvodynia, and Necrophagist with the technical structure and guitar solos of 1970s rock (Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Uriah Heep).
The project features heavily distorted and recontextualized samples from Brazilian films of the 1950s. Its visual identity and artwork are inspired by classic movie posters from the 1920s to the 1950s, featuring cats as the main characters—serving as an ironic and symbolic.
Organs Exposed
Organs Exposed is a one-man slamming brutal gore grind band from Sacramento, CA.
OE started just for fun in back in November 2025 but has transitioned into a full time project. Organs enjoys working with people from different music genres, bringing a unique blend of sound on collaborations. Often working on features and split releases with different bands,
Trojan Whore
Trojan whore is one-man porno/goregrind noise project from the uk.
Focused on split releases, digital grind chaos, and nonstop underground output, Trojan Whore blends pornogrind sleaze, gore-soaked themes, anxiety-fuelled aggression, mixed with noise!
just relentless blastbeats, distorted funky basslines, and pitchshifted screams making an uncomfortable experience for anyone who chooses to listen.
GirlCOCK
Girlcock is a one-woman band by trans-woman and queer artist Amy Girlcock that started with the objective of reclaiming a sub-culture that is rampant with misoginy, homophobia and transphobia.
After the release of the pornogrind-esque debut EP "Finger-Lickin' Good!" and full-length album "Hot Trans Summer", Amy has expanded the sound of Girlcock by introducing elements of diverse genres of music such as electronica and melodic death metal, as seen in the "P RI D E" EP and "Femme Fatale Fuck Machine" album culminating into her melodic-goregrind opus "Fleshbound Adversity". Join Girlcock in celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in extreme metal music!
Doggy Style
Doggy Style, the Porngrind legend from Montréal, is a porngrind solo project led by mastermind Doggy.
Started as a fusion of porngrind and cybergrind in 2012, Doggy Style transitionned to a full-fledged porngrind project in 2023 after an 8 year-long hiatus while Doggy went on to explore the little things life has to offer. When he came back in 2023 with "Anal Fist (Re-Fisted)", he had one mission: to share his real-life experiences and everything he has learned with the world through true porngrind.
Bleeding Wound
Bleeding Wound is a blackened slam project founded in east London that was established in 2025 in late July by Ezra Coy a multi-instrumentalist when he was taking gothic dark photos inspired by black metal and various other dark photographers.
He was influenced by the likes of Darkthrone, Guttural Slug, Devourment and many other bands in the scene. His aim is to bring back the fusion of black metal and slam that Bands like Vile Impregnation and Hateful Transgression started to get our there and make something new brutal, dark, mysterious, evil and above all unique.
Funky Napalm
Funky Napalm is a 2-man experiamental Funky-punk/Grindcore band run by
VoidFace & Trojan Whore.
Focused on Funky vibes, more than heaviness. Because even the DARk has Light.
A mixture of different styles, change release to release.
Giving Funky Napalm a truely unique sound.
Furious Massturbator
Furious Massturbator started in 2014 as a collaborator for Doggy Style's very first split release," Body Sushi".
Furious Massturbator is also the name of the man behind the project, although Doggy from Doggy Style has created the name, the idea for the project, the artworks... Basically everything except for the music.
Furious Massturbator owes everything to Doggy Style. All hail Doggy Style.
NeuroChemical Imbalance
NeuroChemical Imbalance is a two-man Slamming Goregrind band run by Organs Exposed & Trojan Whore.
After collaborating and working on split releases together, realised together they made a unique sound. Decided to form this band together,
Whilst new, many split releases are coming, working with many Slam Metal and Goregrind bands.
VOIDFACE
VOIDFACE has been active since 2013 making cosmic-themed goregrind & mincegore.
Based in Canada, with many other projects under his name. VOIDs contribution to underground music cannot be ignored.
MEATBONG
Meat Bong is another project by VOIDFACE. Focused on more hardcore grind, than his other projects.
Weed, and MEAT focused tongue in cheek humor is found in his imaginary and music.
Mince'N'Weed
MINCE'N'WEED is a band originally from CD Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Run By
Tobixs: drums/guitar/vocals
Celaya: Bass/ production
Mincegore pa la raza.
They are known for their Funky style, doing Split releases with many different bands.
All which are very popular due to their unique MinceGore sound!
Maggot Vomit
Maggot Vomit is a one-man goregrind unit run from Organs Exposed from Sacramento, CA USA.
xMxVx is a DIY project combining groovy beatdown and technical riffs with disgusting puking vocals. xMxVx takes inspiration from bands like Metrorrhagia and Organ Failure.
Mincectomy
Mincectomy is a funky Mincegore band from Trojan Whore.
After collaborating on multiple mincegore projects it was only a matter of time before a new project was born.
Imperfected Solitude
Imperfected Solitude is a two piece deathcore/slam project based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
They debuted their first album in early 2026, and have a second 2026 project in the works titled
"Citywide Eviscreation"
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