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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Modesto, California act founded in 2015 that blends deathcore brutality with groove metal's mid-tempo churn, delivering a heavy sound built on syncopated riffs and punishing low-end.
Dallas folk/melodic death metal band formed in 2014, merging Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal with folk elements to craft an adventurous and epic-leaning sound rooted in the Texas metal underground.
Visby's Swarth pair doom and death metal from the medieval Gotland capital since 2020. Their archaic word meaning "sward" or "turf" and origins within the UNESCO-listed walled city channel the ancient earth beneath medieval stones into compositions of crushing heaviness.
Syanur plays thrash/death metal from the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region, formed in 2022. Their name, a play on 'cyanure' (cyanide), signals the toxic intensity of their aggressive sonic cocktail.
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania act formed in 2012 that began in gothic rock and metal before shifting toward a heavier combination of gothic, doom, and death metal, balancing atmospheric gloom with crushing low-register weight.
Skovde's Syconaut pair melodic death and groove metal from the Vastergotland city since 2014. Their sycophant-astronaut portmanteau channels the fawning exploration of cosmic space into over a decade of rhythmically driven compositions.
New Haven, Connecticut act formed in 2014 that fuses groove metal's rhythmic momentum with death metal's vocal ferocity and riff weight, producing a heavy and kinetic sound from the Connecticut underground.
Italian avant-garde metal act SYK formed in 2013 when guitarist Stefano Ferrian and Federico De Bernardi di Valserra recruited vocalist Dalila Kayros following the dissolution of their previous project. Their debut Atoma (2014) attracted Philip H. Anselmo, who signed them to Housecore Records and produced their second album I-Optikon (2016); subsequent releases Pyramiden (2022) and eartHFlesh, on Season of Mist, expanded the band's eclectic fusion of djent, progressive metal, death metal, and extreme experimentation. Kayros' harsh female vocals are central to the band's identity.
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