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The Age Of Entitlement (2019)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
rosemary (2023)
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Featured Black Metal Album
L'Envol (2024)
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Santa Paula, California band formed in 2019 that merges the aggression of death metal with metalcore structure, delivering a hard-hitting sound from the Ventura County underground.
Chaparral, New Mexico melodic deathcore and metalcore band formed in 2012, blending Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal guitar work with the breakdowns and dynamics of modern metalcore.
Slowmotion Downpour deliver melodic doom/death metal from Jyvaskyla, their evocative name perfectly capturing the gradual, drenching heaviness of their compositions. Active since 2011, they bring lakeland melancholy to the Finnish doom/death tradition.
Jackson, Tennessee band formed in 2013 wielding an exceptionally heavy hybrid of sludge, death, and doom metal, fusing death metal aggression with slow, grinding doom tempos and caustic sludge textures.
Iowa brutal death metal band formed in 2018, delivering relentlessly punishing compositions marked by ferocious tempos, guttural vocals, and dense, pulverizing guitar work.
Milwaukee band formed in 2016 fusing death, thrash, and groove metal into a hard-hitting hybrid that reflects the Midwest's long tradition of no-frills, riff-driven heaviness.
Grand Rapids, Michigan band formed in 2021 forging a volatile mix of black metal, death metal, and sludge, combining extremity and abrasion across a broad spectrum of underground styles.
Greenville, South Carolina band formed in 2022 blending grindcore, death metal, and crust punk into a furious, politically-charged noise assault in the tradition of Southern hardcore-metal crossover.
Ljubljana's Slugpit pair black and death metal with punk influences from the Slovenian capital since 2024. Their name combining gastropod slime with a fighting pit channels the visceral energy of degraded combat into compositions of freshly-minted, punk-charged extremity.
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