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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Dallas, Texas death metal outfit active since 2013, grinding out no-frills brutality rooted in the direct, punishing tradition of American death metal.
Progressive death metal band from Toledo, Ohio, active since 2013, combining the technical ambition of progressive metal with the aggression and heaviness of death metal.
Pennsylvania death/thrash metal band formed in 2020, channeling the punishing crossover of extreme thrash aggression and death metal brutality that defined late-1980s underground metal.
Omaha, Nebraska act founded in 2016 that began as a pure black metal project before evolving into a blackened death metal band, building a catalog that tracks the shift in their sonic extremity.
Death metal band from Colorado Springs, Colorado, founded in 2015, delivering the kind of straightforward, hard-hitting death metal cultivated within the American underground over the past decade.
Trycer from Syracuse deliver death metal from the ancient Sicilian city of Archimedes since 2022. Their compositions channel Hellenistic-era intensity through modern brutality.
Avant-garde technical death metal band from Rancho Cucamonga, California, formed in 2019, pushing the boundaries of the genre with unconventional song structures and psychedelic sonic experimentation layered over complex death metal riffing.
Tryskelion from Cefalù on the northern Sicilian coast deliver melodic death metal named after the triskelion — the three-legged symbol of Sicily since 2022. Their Norman-Arab-Byzantine cathedral town provides a culturally layered backdrop.
Tsargoyle is a black/death metal act from Suffolk, England, formed in 2022. They blend the ferocity of death metal with the atmospheric menace of black metal in the British extreme underground.
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