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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Boston death metal project named after the neurological condition of being unable to form mental images. A fitting name for music that operates in pure sensation rather than visualization.
Madison Heights, Virginia progressive metal project with an extraordinary fourteen releases since 2012. The medical term for language impairment belies their prolific verbal output, building one of the deepest catalogs in American underground prog from a small Blue Ridge city.
Apheiron channels black metal from Nowy Sącz in Lesser Poland since 2008. Their name, derived from the Greek concept of the boundless or infinite, drives nearly two decades of black metal from this Carpathian mountain town.
Aphel is a death metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2016, contributing to the capital's diverse and thriving extreme metal community. The band's name, referencing the orbital point farthest from a star, suggests a cold, distant quality in their approach to death metal.
Snohomish County, Washington death metal project whose 2017 EP TORTURED-EXISTENCE announces its aesthetic in capital letters. Raw, uncompromising death metal from the rural outskirts of the Seattle metro.
Prescott, Arizona melodic death metal and power metal hybrid. Their untitled debut emerges from the high desert of central Arizona, blending European metal traditions with American frontier energy.
New York City death metal project with ten releases since 2020, making them one of the most prolific acts in the city's extreme underground. The Analytic Sessions and subsequent releases suggest a methodical, almost scientific approach to crafting brutality.
Silver Spring speed metal project from the Maryland underground.
Aphellium creates melodic groove metal and metalcore from Warsaw since 2018. Their astronomical name — referencing the point farthest from the sun — drives compositions that explore the distance between melody and aggression.
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