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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Black metal project from Istanbul, emerging in 2022. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Turkish origins.
Heavy Death Metal from Houston.
A Florida black/death metal act formed in 2017, contributing the track Metal of Death to the 2018 Tribute to Beherit compilation while pursuing aggressively dark occult and transgressive themes.
A death metal/deathcore band from Chesapeake, Virginia active since 2010, continuing to operate independently in the underground scene.
A melodic death metal band from Long Island, New York formed in 2006, channeling themes of internal and external struggle through the genre's melodic aggression.
Rimini-based death metal act active since 2021, trafficking in the genre's essential currency of guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and relentless percussive punishment. Their compositions deliver uncompromising heaviness rooted in the old-school tradition.
Spanish black/death metal band from Lugo in Galicia, formed in 2012. They forge prophetic black/death metal from the ancient Roman-walled city of northwestern Spain.
A brutal death metal act from Williamson, West Virginia, Barbaric Disembowelment leans into gore and depravity as lyrical fodder, occupying the most visceral end of the genre's spectrum.
Barbaric Exsanguination operates in the punishing overlap of slam and brutal death metal, with a 2024 compilation appearance on Liminal Dread Productions' Heavy for the Hollers marking their entry into the underground.
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