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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Pittsburgh heavy metal outfit Child of Fire channels the blue-collar grit of their Steel City roots into muscular, riff-forward metal with classic sensibilities. Their sound draws on traditional heavy metal without straying too far from the straightforward punch the genre demands.
Orange County's Child Saint fuses the crushing weight of doom metal with the soaring melodic ambitions of power metal, creating a dramatic and heavy dynamic that sets them apart from either genre alone. Epic song structures meet downtuned heaviness across their catalog.
Newark, Ohio death metal act Child Sized Coffin brings a blunt, uncompromising brutality to their music, rooted in the mid-American underground scene's no-frills tradition. Their name alone signals the unrelenting darkness baked into every track.
Indiana's Childe of Death blends melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with the raw aggression of straight death metal, carving out a niche in the rural Midwest underground. Their approach leans on melodic leads and hooks without sacrificing outright brutality.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2017. They blend melodic sensibilities with metalcore dynamics from the Basque capital.
Death metal and grindcore band from England, formed in 2023. They deliver chaotic, grinding extremity.
Hailing from Winston County, Mississippi, Children of Aries delivers a blend of classic heavy metal and thrash rooted in the Southern underground's do-it-yourself ethos. Their music is straightforward and aggressive, drawing on traditional metal frameworks with regional intensity.
Melodic death-power metal band from Espoo/Helsinki, Finland, active since 2012. They carry the spirit of Finnish melodic death metal with power metal hooks and dynamic songwriting.
Progressive black-doom act from Bergen, active since 2015. Children of Cain blends atmospheric black metal with doom and progressive elements from Norway's western capital.
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