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Featured Album
Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Albuquerque death metal, grindcore, and powerviolence band formed in 2020, named after the HTTP 502 error code and releasing brutal short-form material from the New Mexico underground.
Portland, Oregon thrash metal band formed in 2017, delivering straightforward Bay Area-influenced thrash from the Pacific Northwest underground.
Houston speed metal band formed in 2016, operating under the name Bad Heaven Ltd. and channeling classic speed metal intensity into modern output.
German melodic heavy metal band from Fischbach, formed in 2014. They craft hook-driven heavy metal with strong melodies and an accessible yet powerful sound.
Boston heavy and power metal band formed in 2013, combining muscular traditional metal riffs with the anthemic melodic sensibility of classic power metal.
Seattle heavy metal and hard rock band formed in 2017, drawing from classic rock's bluesy backbone and traditional metal's punch to craft hook-driven material.
Black metal project formed in 2023, releasing raw underground material through Bandcamp with a sound consistent with stripped-down, lo-fi black metal aesthetics.
Heavy and power metal band from Wangen an der Aare, Switzerland, formed in 2024. A new act bringing melodic power and heavy metal might from the Bernese Mittelland.
Sludge/stoner metal and hard rock band from Nottingham, self-described purveyors of speed doom. Their releases including Mood Poisoning and Fantasy Dealer deliver crushing low-end riffs to the East Midlands underground.
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