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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Kansas City metalcore act channeling left-hand-path themes through aggressive breakdowns and heavy riffs, contributing to Missouri's underrated heavy music community.
Reston, Virginia death metal project whose album titles — Starch Enemy and Omnivore — build an elaborate food-themed mythology through punishing extremity. Culinary death metal from the DC suburbs.
Portland thrash band tearing through the Rose City's metal scene with aggressive speed and precision, adding to the Pacific Northwest's versatile heavy music output.
Lebanon, Ohio death metal band from the Cincinnati suburbs, delivering technical extremity informed by Southwest Ohio's productive underground metal community.
At the Twilight channels raw black metal from Nettuno south of Rome since 2019. From this Lazio coastal town, site of the famous WWII beachhead, they practice black metal in its most stripped-down, unadorned form.
Virginia Beach speed/thrash metal project. A blunt, two-word mission statement from Hampton Roads' metal underground.
Indianapolis progressive metal project exploring internal conflict through complex, introspective compositions, reflecting the contemplative side of Indiana's heavy music scene.
Tucson deathcore act delivering crushing superiority-themed breakdowns from the Arizona desert, adding savage intensity to the Southwest's extreme metal landscape.
Worcestershire's At War with the Sun emerged in 2022 wielding a potent combination of doom and sludge metal, crafting songs that lumber with oppressive weight before erupting into cathartic, feedback-drenched crescendos. Their sound captures the bleakness suggested by their name.
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