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To Take Your Place (2022)
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Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum (2022)
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A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Milwaukee's Cholernik fuse black metal darkness with progressive ambition, building elaborate compositions that shift between cold atmosphere and technical complexity. A forward-thinking act from the Wisconsin underground.
Frigid Depressive Black Metal out of Texas.
Melodic death metal band from Finland, formed in 2024. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal in the Finnish tradition.
West Hills crossover thrashers Cholos on Acid bring Southern California attitude to a chaotic blend of groove metal and full-throttle thrash. The name tells you most of what you need to know.
Wheeling, Illinois grind/death act Chomo Eradicator deal in punishing blasts and visceral extremity with no pretense of subtlety. Loud, ugly, and to the point.
Sludge metal band from Hamburg, Germany, active since 2015. They craft massive, slow-burning heaviness with thick, distorted riffs from the Hanseatic port city.
Detroit gothic metal outfit Choose Death traffic in dark, melodic heaviness shaped by the Motor City's long history of hard rock and alternative metal. Moody and atmosphere-driven.
Roanoke's Choose to Suffer collide black metal venom with hardcore aggression and thrash momentum, producing a chaotic and combative hybrid. Virginia underground at its most unruly.
New Bern, North Carolina's Choose Your Weapon channel metalcore's melodic hooks through a thrash metal filter for a sound that hits hard without abandoning songcraft. Straightforward and driven.
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