Usurpress is a death metal-band (of sorts) formed in Uppsala, Sweden, May 2010. The musical aim of founding members Steffe Pettersson (vocals), Påhl Sundström (guitar) and Calle Andersson (drums) was, and still is, to combine the bestiality of old death metal and the undying hate of true hardcore/punk.

The band was later joined by renowned death metal-expert Daniel Ekeroth (bass). The members all come from different musical backgrounds but their common ground is the love and understanding for all kinds of dark and aggressive underground music.

Usurpress calls their music “death crust” as they write short, aggressive songs based around wierd, dissonant death metal riffs and raw, primitive d-beat drumming. The quartet’s debut offering, the 4-song demo simply called Demo 2010, and so far the band has released the mini-LP In Permanent Twilight (2011) and the full length album Trenches of the Netherworld (2012). In the end of 2013 Usurpress will unleash their new, even more complex, recording, a 10”/mini-CD which is a split with international deathgrinders Bent Sea (members from Soilwork, Napalm Death, Aborted, etc). In 2014 the band realesed their second full lenght called Ordained with a more mature songwriting sounding doomy and psych. In 2016 it's time to " The Regal Tribe".