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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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A Karmic Gray is a metalcore act from Frazeysburg, Ohio, with four releases totaling 22 tracks since their emergence. The band incorporates guest features and genre-blending elements into their metalcore foundation, pointing toward a modern, collaborative approach. Their prolific output from a small rural Ohio town speaks to the democratization of extreme music production.
A Killing Glance is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2012, whose Time to Wake Up EP donates one hundred percent of profits to the Sea Shepherd ocean conservation organization. The band merges progressive and melodic death metal with accessible hooks, drawing comparisons to Dark Tranquillity and Obscura.
A la Carte is a death metal band from Lima, Ohio, serving up gore-themed brutality with a culinary twist since 2020. Track titles like "Soup Dejour," "Aborted Eggs Benedict," and "Hymen Drizzled Hotcakes" combine food service vocabulary with graphic anatomical horror. Across two releases and 15 tracks, the band has carved out a uniquely nauseating niche in Ohio's death metal scene.
A Land Beyond the Sea weaves melodic black metal from the Finnish city of Lahti, evoking the vast, frozen landscapes that stretch beyond its lakeside setting. Since 2013, the project has explored the atmospheric boundaries of black metal through a distinctly Nordic lens.
A Lapse of Ethos is a deathcore project from Phoenix, Arizona, with a single release to their name. Details remain sparse, but the project name — suggesting a breakdown of moral principles — aligns with the genre's thematic preoccupations with societal decay and personal collapse. The band adds to the growing extreme metal presence in the Phoenix desert scene.
New York City metalcore and thrash project named after the Exodus classic. Manhattan aggression paying tribute to Bay Area thrash royalty.
A Letter from Drowner crafts atmospheric post-black metal from the Chuvashia Republic since 2020. Their narrative name — a message from someone drowning — drives compositions of aquatic suffocation from this Volga region ethnic republic.
A Lie Nation forges melodic black metal from Oulu in northern Finland, drawing from the extreme cold and endless winters of the subarctic since 2015. Their sound carries the bleak grandeur of Finland's northernmost metal communities.
A Life Less Alive is a death metal project that originated in Irvine, California before relocating to Avon Lake, Ohio. The cross-country trajectory reflects the transient nature of underground metal projects, carrying West Coast technicality to the Midwest. Limited releases suggest a project still finding its footing between coasts.
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