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The Age Of Entitlement (2019)
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rosemary (2023)
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L'Envol (2024)
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New Orleans sludge metal band formed in 2012, operating squarely within the city's storied tradition of swampy, slow-burning heaviness pioneered by acts like Eyehategod and Crowbar.
Jonkoping's Sluka have been merging death, doom, and sludge metal from the Smaland lakeside city since 2001. A quarter-century from the shores of Lake Vattern, their Swedish name meaning "to swallow" has produced one of the region's most enduring extreme acts.
Utica, New York band formed in 2013 specializing in slam and brutal death metal with deathcore elements, known for bone-crushing low-tuned riffs and guttural vocal extremity.
Slum Reaper pair death metal and crust punk from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2017. Their poverty-harvester name channels the collection of death from society's margins into compositions of anonymous, punk-infused extremity.
Meriden, Connecticut death metal band formed in 2014, delivering straight-ahead brutality in the tradition of the Northeast's long-running and densely populated death metal underground.
Slups deal in death metal from Madrid, channeling extreme aggression from the Spanish capital. Active since 2012, they bring raw brutality to the Iberian death metal landscape.
Slutgutter is a death metal band from Lincoln, Nebraska, formed in 2015, delivering abrasive and punishing extreme metal rooted in the American underground scene.
Small Town Murder is a Chicago deathcore and death metal band formed in 2023, crafting brutal and crushing music that blends the down-tuned savagery of deathcore breakdowns with straightforward death metal aggression.
Smilodon play melodic death metal from the Bammental/Heidelberg area, named after the extinct saber-toothed cat in keeping with their predatory approach to melodeath. Active since 2011, they bring evolutionary ferocity to the Rhine-Neckar region.
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