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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Albany death metal project from the New York underground.
Boston sludge metal project from the Massachusetts underground.
Des Moines, Iowa groove metal project whose 2014 debut Paranoid Fiction channels Midwestern alienation through heavy, rhythmically driven metal. The name captures a very specific modern malaise — feeling nothing in a world demanding constant engagement.
Battle Creek death metal project from the Michigan underground.
Apati has practiced depressive black metal and post-rock from the Västerås and Fagersta area since 2016. Their Swedish name meaning 'apathy' drives compositions of profound emotional numbness from the Västmanland industrial belt.
Apatra delivers death and thrash metal from Moscow since 2017. Their name, possibly derived from the Greek word for deception, drives compositions of duplicitous aggression from the Russian capital.
Cincinnati power metal project from the Ohio underground.
Portland doom metal act named after the longest lava tube in the continental US, located in nearby Washington State. Their 2016 debut Pillars of Evolution pairs geological time scales with crushing heaviness, the subterranean imagery perfectly matching their cavernous sound.
Valdese, North Carolina sludge metal project whose releases Arctic Noise and Andromedas Colossus span from frigid isolation to cosmic scale. Foothills Appalachia proving unexpectedly fertile ground for experimental sludge.
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