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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Columbus experimental black/thrash act Citranomicon approach genre boundaries as suggestions, welding cold tremolo-picked fury to unconventional structures and a genuinely strange sonic imagination. They resist easy categorization.
Los Angeles experimental progressive metal act Civil Defiance push beyond conventional song structures, blending odd meters and dissonant harmonic choices into something deliberately off-axis. Their music challenges as much as it rewards.
Experimental doom-groove metal band from Middlesbrough, England, formed in 2021. They push doom and groove metal boundaries through unconventional approaches.
A highly obscure black metal and experimental project from Michigan, Cnilaoxex operate at the fringes of the underground with a sound that prioritizes noise and abstraction over convention. Details about the project remain sparse, which seems entirely intentional.
Dallas, Texas death metal and grindcore outfit Coffin Hoarder push into experimental territory, combining brutality with unpredictable structures that subvert genre expectations. They're one of Dallas's more adventurous extreme metal acts.
New York's Cognitive Collapse push technical death metal into experimental territory, warping song structures and tonality into something disorienting and deeply unsettling.
Experimental black metal project from Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, formed in 2019. They push black metal boundaries through unconventional structures and avant-garde sonic exploration.
Experimental black-death metal band from Grenoble, France, formed in 2022. They push extreme metal into unconventional territory from the French Alps.
Experimental grindcore and death metal act from Most, Czech Republic, active since 1995. Across seven releases from Necrostories through 2020's Mamun, Contrastic blend forward-thinking grind with melodies, electronica, and jazz influences for a uniquely catchy and chaotic sound.
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