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...Under a Full Moon is a prolific doom metal project originally from Midland, Michigan, later relocating to North Carolina, with an enormous output since 2017. Across eleven releases — including four full-lengths and multiple EPs — the project has built a sprawling catalog of oppressive, ritualistic doom metal. The sheer volume and pace of output points to a singularly driven vision of unrelenting heaviness.
...with Abandon is a death metal band from Bellingham, Washington, debuting in 2024 with the three-track EP "Scheele's Green." Named after the arsenic-laced pigment, tracks like "Hopefiend" and "Cinders of Seraphim" suggest a band drawn to morbid historical curiosity alongside their brutal sonic approach. The band represents the Pacific Northwest's continued contribution to American death metal.
.50Collateral is a death metal act from Alabama that emerged in 2025 with the four-track EP "Desolation of the Last Species." The release features track titles of escalating absurdity, culminating in the unforgettably named "Being Choked to Death by a Hillbilly with Banjo Strings and This Is the Last Thing You Hear." The band deals in raw, Southern-fried brutality with a pitch-black sense of humor.
.Nema is a black metal and crust punk band from Detroit, Michigan, active since 1995 with roots in the city's hardcore scene. Across a demo, EP, and the 17-track full-length "Bring Our Curses Home" (1998), the band fused raw black metal tremolo picking with the d-beat urgency of crust punk. Their mid-90s output places them among the early American acts bridging extreme metal and punk.
.springofdrownedpanda. is a sludge metal project from Peekskill, New York, named after the cursed springs of Ranma 1/2. Active since 2009, the project's self-titled EP features five tracks of crushing sludge with absurdist titles referencing the anime's mythology. A 2021 follow-up single continued the theme, suggesting a project as devoted to its conceptual humor as to its crushing low-end.
.Tallow. is a noise rock and sludge metal project from San Francisco, California, releasing the three-track "Crack Tracks" EP in 2011. With songs like "My Baby's Gone (She Left Me for a Cult)," the project blends abrasive sludge riffing with the angular dissonance of noise rock. The release captures the grimy, confrontational energy of the Bay Area's heavy underground.
0% Hate is a death metal act from Las Vegas, Nevada, active since 2016 with a demo and two EPs to their name. Their 2020 EP "At the Mercy of Your Own" — released in both standard and instrumental versions — showcases a contemplative strain of death metal with philosophical song titles like "amor fati" and "as all is merely random." The band brings an unusually introspective dimension to the Vegas extreme metal scene.
Solo atmospheric black metal project from Pernambuco, Brazil, built around the concept of primordial void — the name 0-Nun refers to the absence of the cosmic liquid said to have given birth to the universe. The project is led by the sole member V0 Id and has released a multi-part conceptual series titled The Shamanic Trilogy, exploring non-existence, emptiness, and shamanic philosophy across three installments plus a fourth release. The music fuses dense atmospheric black metal with meditative, cosmological themes rooted in the idea of all things having never been.
1 Body 6 Graves is a death metal outfit hailing from Columbus, Indiana, dealing in guttural brutality with tracks like "Writhing Mass of Bodies" and "Bestial Resection." Emerging in 2022 with a self-titled EP, the band delivers seven cuts of no-frills death metal built on grinding riffs, blast beats, and an unflinching fixation on gore. Their approach is firmly rooted in the American underground death metal tradition, favoring raw aggression over polish.
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