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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Indianapolis's Curb work the volatile intersection of black metal's atmospheric menace and death metal's structural brutality, a combination that has always felt at home in the Midwest's underground extreme scene. The Indiana act operates independently, adding to a regional lineage that includes Coffinworm and Demiricous.
Meriden, Connecticut's Curse operate in the unadorned, misanthropic tradition of black metal, contributing to a New England underground scene that has produced some of the most raw and austere extreme metal in the country. The Connecticut band's lyrical and sonic focus remains fixed on the genre's core themes of darkness and anti-religious contempt.
Black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2022. They channel eternal darkness through raw black metal.
Cleveland blackened death metal act drawing on both Scandinavian black metal atmosphere and brutal American death metal aggression. Their sound merges icy tremolo riffs with punishing low-end devastation.
Philadelphia experimental black metal project pushing genre boundaries with unconventional song structures and corrosive atmosphere. Curse of the Capricorn fuses cold black metal hostility with dissonant, avant-garde sonic exploration.
Cleveland band fusing black, death, and melodic death metal into a cold and visceral assault. Curse the Gods harnesses Ohio's underground metal fury with atmospheric menace and unrelenting aggression.
Black metal band from Tornio on the Swedish border, Finland, active since 2011. They craft atmospheric black metal from the northernmost reaches of the Gulf of Bothnia.
Black metal project from Kraków, formed in 2020. Cursebinder channels occult black metal from Poland's cultural capital.
Central Valley, California band fusing black and death metal into a raw and confrontational sound. Cursed CA operates in the underground with caustic riffs and an unpolished ferocity.
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