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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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Death-doom-industrial act from Jönköping in Småland, formed in 2018. Counterblast merges multiple extreme subgenres from the Småland highlands.
Green Bay act merging industrial metal's mechanical coldness with the brutality of death metal. Their sound is mechanized and crushing, built on rhythmic punishment and processed aggression.
Gothic industrial death metal band from Mannheim, Germany, active since 2009. They blend the aggression of death metal with gothic atmospheres and industrial elements from the Rhine-Neckar region.
Titusville, Pennsylvania's Crowbra carves out a genuinely strange niche, fusing industrial metal's mechanical menace with black metal atmospherics and hardcore's confrontational energy. Abrasive and uncompromising, they resist easy categorization.
Industrial-tinged black and doom metal act fusing cold electronic textures with crushing guitar weight and gothic darkness. The combination creates something bleak, mechanical, and deeply unsettling.
Boston's Cryostasium fuse black metal atmospherics with cold industrial textures, constructing bleak, machine-like soundscapes. Their recordings feel deliberately frozen and desolate, blending organic and synthetic elements into a single oppressive mass.
Industrial death metal band from France, emerging in 2025. They channel mechanized aggression through industrial death metal.
Belarusian metal act blending death metal, industrial metal, and thrash metal into a mechanized, aggressive sound. Their genre-crossing approach draws from both extreme and electronic metal traditions.
Chattanooga's Cult of Judas smear industrial grime over a foundation of lurching sludge metal, wringing out a sound that is as mechanically hostile as it is heavy. Their 2016 release Evolutionary Level Above Human showcases a band willing to push the genre into deliberately unsettling, post-industrial territory.
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