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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Downingtown, Pennsylvania act blending progressive ambition with death metal ferocity and thrash metal energy. Their compositions stretch beyond genre conventions while keeping the aggression intact.
Santa Clarita death metal band delivering uncompromising brutality in the Southern California underground tradition. Crushing riffs and guttural vocals define their unrelenting approach.
War metal in the vein of Havohej, Demoncy, and Beherit. Briefly split in 2016 before reuniting in 2018 with renewed ferocity.
Black-death metal band from Narva, Estonia, formed in 2015. They channel extreme metal darkness from the Estonian-Russian border city.
Cherry Hill, New Jersey progressive death/melodeath band weaving technical complexity and melodic depth into punishing extreme metal. Their compositions balance intellectual ambition with visceral heaviness.
Death-doom act from Bodegraven, South Holland, active since 2013. Condolence merges mournful doom with crushing death metal from the Dutch lowlands.
Melodic death metal outfit drawing on European melodeath tradition with a polished, hook-driven attack. Layered guitar harmonies and dynamic songwriting anchor their aggressive sound.
Sacramento melodic deathcore band known for technically demanding guitar work and a sound that straddles the line between melodic death metal and the heavier end of deathcore. They built a devoted following in the mid-2000s West Coast extreme metal underground.
Death metal band from Emmerich on the Dutch border, Germany, formed in 2016. They deliver death metal aggression from the Lower Rhine region.
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