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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Groove-thrash act from Tikhvin in the Leningrad Oblast, formed in 2020. Crazy Train delivers heavy, riff-driven metal from northwestern Russia.
Danville, Kentucky band combining death metal's brutality with groove metal's rhythmic swagger. Creature of Exile delivers heavy, pocket-driven music with a menacing Southern edge.
Fort Wayne, Indiana groove metal act built on mid-tempo pound and the kind of riff-first mentality that made the Midwest a reliable source of heavy music. Creep delivers blunt, knuckle-dragging heaviness.
Dallas groove and thrash metal act fusing the rhythmic chug of groove with thrash's forward momentum. Creeper TX reflects the DFW area's long-running appetite for heavy music with commercial muscle and underground credibility.
Castro Valley, California groove and thrash metal band delivering Bay Area heaviness with a streetwise, hard-hitting character. Creepo channels the classic Northern California metal tradition into punchy, riff-driven songs.
Los Angeles's Crematorium merged the pit-ready aggression of death metal and hardcore with groove metal's head-down heaviness. Their sound captures the density and intensity of the LA underground's most extreme end.
Groove metal and metalcore act from Craiova formed in 2016, fusing heavy rhythmic weight with aggressive breakdowns from Oltenia's capital. Their dual approach draws power from both groove metal's heft and metalcore's explosive intensity.
Groove-thrash band from Vignola near Modena, formed in 2022. Crimes delivers rhythmically-driven aggression from the Emilia-Romagna underground.
Smithfield, North Carolina's Criminally Insane grind out groove metal with a Southern heaviness and a head-down, no-frills attitude. Their music leans into rhythm and stomp over technicality.
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