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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Doom-groove-heavy metal band from Almeria, Spain, formed in 2014. They blend crushing doom weight with heavy grooves from the sun-scorched southeastern coast.
Pleasant Hill, California's Concealed meld groove metal's mid-tempo swagger with nu metal's heavy atmosphere and occasional thrash bite, landing in the aggressive pocket of late-90s Bay Area heaviness.
Tullytown, Pennsylvania's Concoct stir together death metal's extremity and groove metal's rhythmic swagger, concocting a sound built for pit-ready heaviness.
Groove metal band from Turin, formed in 2018. Concrete Block brings crushing, rhythmically-driven heaviness to the Piedmontese scene.
Fort Lauderdale groove metal band bringing heavy, mid-tempo punishment to the South Florida metal scene. Thick, churning riffs and a menacing low end define their approach.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts groove/thrash act combining the groove metal heaviness of the early 1990s with hardcore attitude and thrash metal momentum. A heavy-hitting presence in the Western Mass underground.
Industrial death-groove act from Moscow, active since 2009. Conflict merges electronic elements with death metal weight and groove-driven rhythms.
Kansas City's Conspiracy combine the locked-in chug of groove metal with the kinetic aggression of thrash, delivering a heavy, head-down attack built for the working-class Midwest metal crowd.
Norfolk's Construkt fuse thrash metal's aggression with groove metal's rhythmic lockstep, forging a tight, riff-heavy sound that reflects the military-city toughness and underground drive of coastal Virginia.
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