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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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New York black metal act formed in 2024, this Starvation project channels raw, stripped-down black metal hostility with an uncompromising underground sensibility.
San Jose, California black/death metal band formed in 2022, Starve the Leech blends the tremolo aggression of black metal with the heaviness and technique of death metal.
State of Neglect forge blackened doom metal from Erfurt in Thuringia, combining the atmospheric malevolence of black metal with doom's crushing deliberation. Formed in 2024, they bring blighted heaviness to the central German underground.
Los Angeles band formed in 2025 fusing black metal's cold dissonance with the urgency and aggression of hardcore punk, operating at the raw intersection of both traditions.
Norrkoping's Status Noll practice raw black metal with punk influences since 2014. Their Swedish name meaning "status zero" channels the annihilation of social standing into lo-fi compositions of over a decade of Ostergotland darkness.
Post-black metal project from Corona, California, active since 2017, blending the atmospheric density of black metal with post-rock's expansive, textured dynamics and melodic introspection.
Steal evolved from funeral doom metal into a broader black/death/doom approach from the southwestern Finnish town of Salo, deepening their sonic palette while maintaining their extreme heaviness. Formed in 2024, they bring evolving darkness to the Varsinais-Suomi scene.
Dallas blackened death/thrash fusing Bolt Thrower-style heaviness with vicious thrash and black metal.
Omaha black metal and punk band formed in 2013, blending the rawness of black metal with punk's stripped-down energy in the tradition of the Midwestern underground's more abrasive and confrontational acts.
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