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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Springfield black metal project from the Virginia underground.
Apovrasma is a Belgian solo black metal project in which all instruments, vocals, and lyrics are handled by one person who goes by Scum. The project leans into ecocentric themes, as heard on the 2021 release "Gaeas Revenge," and has also released the full-length "Archidémon" alongside an early demo.
Knoxville sludge metal project channeling East Tennessee mountain isolation into crushing heaviness.
Johnson City, Tennessee stoner metal project. Mountain-country heaviness with cult ritual atmosphere.
Tri-Cities, Tennessee black metal project whose 2014 debut Skuggar í fjöllunum — Icelandic for 'shadows in the mountains' — marries Appalachian geography with Nordic black metal traditions. A striking collision of Southern mountain culture and Scandinavian extremity.
Richmond/Mechanicsville, Virginia black metal project drawing from Appalachian folk traditions.
Huntington, West Virginia crust punk and thrash outfit delivering politically charged fury since 2008. Albums like Greenwashing and splits with Scottish anarcho-punks Oi Polloi cement their place in the American crust pantheon, their name perfectly capturing the intersection of Appalachian hardship and punk rage.
Schellsburg, Pennsylvania black metal project with seven releases since 2008. Their catalog — from Ghosts of the Mountains to From the Cosmos to the Mountains — uses Appalachian landscapes as both setting and metaphor, building a substantial body of nature-worshipping atmospheric black metal from rural central PA.
Whitesburg, Kentucky NWOTHM act whose 2022 EP No Life Til' Leatherwood riffs on the Beastie Boys while celebrating deep Appalachian culture. Heavy metal from the coal country of southeastern Kentucky, as authentic and unpolished as the mountains themselves.
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