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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Borderland (2025)
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Klamath Falls, Oregon's Crypt Dweller merge death metal's brutality with doom metal's glacial, oppressive pacing. Their songs sink low and slow, pausing only to crush harder.
Death metal band from Blackpool, England, formed in 2024. They deliver crushing death metal from the Lancashire coast.
Ohio's Crypt Hammer deal in bone-dry, no-frills death metal that hammers through every track with single-minded force. Their music channels the blunt, workmanlike brutality of the Midwest underground.
Springfield, Missouri's Crypt Key combine death metal aggression with doom's slow, dragging tempos into a sound that's simultaneously crushing and suffocating. Their compositions shift between outright violence and funereal crawl.
Progressive death-doom band from Gomel, Belarus, formed in 2008. Their 2024 debut album Stargazer, praised by Metal Hammer UK and No Clean Singing as vast and astonishingly heavy, was completed posthumously from drafts left by founding songwriter Pavel.
Death-doom act from Ivano-Frankivsk in the Carpathian foothills of western Ukraine, active since 2014. Crypt of Silence merges crushing death metal with doom pacing from the Prykarpattia region.
Ashtabula, Ohio's Crypt Rot deliver uncompromising death metal with a damp, decayed production aesthetic that suits their rotting, underground aesthetic. Their material feels like it was excavated rather than recorded.
Findlay, Ohio's Crypt Tongue blend the blasting chaos of grindcore with death metal's tonal brutality, resulting in fast, ferocious music with little patience for subtlety. Their sets leave little time to breathe.
Ann Arbor's Crypt Watcher churn out death metal with a watchful, deliberate heaviness, letting riffs breathe just long enough before collapsing back into full-force brutality. Their sound is rooted in the gritty Michigan underground.
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