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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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San Diego, California black/death metal outfit Cuernos del Chivo combine raw, punishing black metal with the brutal low-end of death metal, forging a relentless and aggressive sound. Their Spanish name — "horns of the goat" — signals their commitment to old-school darkness.
Nashville, Tennessee deathcore outfit Cult Breather bring punishing breakdowns and brutal death metal riffing to the Southern underground. Their sound is dense, technical, and relentlessly heavy.
Black-death-doom metal band from London, formed in 2020. They channel cult-like darkness through a crushing fusion of three extreme genres.
New York City's Cult Dialect carves out a gritty crossroads between death metal, hardcore, and thrash, channeling the borough's street-level aggression into a blunt, punishing hybrid sound. Their approach owes as much to the NYHC tradition of blunt-force riffing as it does to the death and thrash scenes that grew up alongside it.
San Jose's Cult Graves traffick in barbaric black/death metal that draws equally from old Deicide's surgical brutality and Proclamation's war-metal chaos. Formed in 2018 and signed to Transylvanian Recordings, their 2020 full-length Strange Customs established them as one of the Bay Area underground's most uncompromising voices.
Death-thrash project from Portugal, formed in 2024. Cult of Alcaeus — named after the ancient Greek poet — channels extreme metal with classical allusions.
Death-thrash act from Almere in Flevoland, formed in 2024. Cult of Carnage brings aggressive extreme metal to the Netherlands' newest province.
Gothic death-doom act from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2021. Cult of Decay merges dark atmospherics with crushing doom and death metal.
Death metal band from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2015. They channel apocalyptic themes through death metal from eastern Finland.
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