Skinless

A venerable American death metal and grindcore outfit, New York's Skinless began coughing up guttural slabs of kinetic, groove-laden brutality in the early '90s. Building off the sonic malevolence laid down by extreme metal pioneers like Suffocation and Obituary, the band lethally mixed satire and savagery, sometimes playing off of the ludicrous song titles of grindcore heavies like Carcass and Cannibal Corpse, while maintaining their own skewed critique of society. The group went through numerous personnel changes before the release of their 1998 debut, Progression Toward Evi...