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New Albany, Indiana metalcore project with four releases since 2019. Live From Isolation captures the pandemic era through heavy music, while Holding On To A Ghost explores spectral themes from the Louisville metro's Indiana side.
Brick, New Jersey death metal band from the Jersey Shore, delivering brutal extremity far from the boardwalks and beaches the area is typically known for.
Suisun City/Napa, California deathcore project whose 2016 EP chetirye — Russian for 'four' — brings multilingual mysticism to Bay Area breakdowns.
El Paso post-hardcore legends. Relationship of Command is one of the greatest punk records ever made.
A black metal act from Campina Grande do Sul, Paraná, formed in 2025. Their Bandcamp catalog already includes multiple releases — "I Can't Forgive Myself," "On the Edge of the Cliff," and "Violated" — suggesting a productive start for such a recently formed project. They represent the newer wave of underground Brazilian black metal emerging from the interior of Paraná state.
Long Beach, California groove metal and hardcore punk outfit with fifteen releases since 2019. Their LATE series — numbered and themed — builds one of the most extensive catalogs in Southern California's heavy underground.
At the Front is a groove/thrash metal band from Wevelgem, West Flanders, originally formed in 1993 before going on hiatus and reforming in 2014. They play a hard-hitting mix of thrash and groove metal rooted in the Belgian working-class metal tradition of the West Flanders region.
At the Gates has been one of the most influential bands in the history of melodic death metal, pioneering the Gothenburg sound from their formation. Their 1995 album 'Slaughter of the Soul' remains a genre-defining masterpiece, and their continued activity demonstrates their enduring creative vitality.
Arnold/Annapolis, Maryland sludge metal veterans with twelve releases since 2009. Cold and True and Constant, Cruel Irony anchor a massive catalog that has made them one of the Chesapeake region's most prolific and respected heavy bands.
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