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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Speed-thrash band from Ferrara, formed in 2019. Cocaine Cowboys plays wild, high-velocity thrash and speed metal with outlaw attitude from Emilia-Romagna.
Muncie, Indiana's Cocaine Culture are a genre-defying chaos engine drawing from black, death, doom, sludge, and alternative metal in equal and unsettling measure. The result is a dense, disorienting sound that refuses easy categorization.
Thibodaux, Louisiana sludge metal band Cocaine Sermon channel the swampy, oppressive heaviness that southern sludge does best. Their music is thick with bayou rot and the kind of slow-burning dread that the Gulf South breeds naturally.
Coccyx is a brutal death metal band from Minas Gerais, Brazil, an independent act that has remained active across multiple periods of activity. The band released a self-titled album in 2018 and appeared on the Brazilian metal compilation "Map of Hell" via UGK Discos (2017). They operate within the fertile Minas Gerais extreme metal underground.
Death metal band from Vigo, Spain, formed in 2020. They deliver crushing death metal from the Galician Atlantic coast.
Death metal band from London, active since 2013. They deliver crushing death metal from the English capital.
NWOBHM heavy metal band from London, active since 2000. Originally an East End punk band in the late 1970s, Cockney Rejects transitioned into heavy metal, becoming part of the NWOBHM movement.
Brutal death-grindcore-groove band from Murcia, Spain, formed in 2016. They blend multiple extreme genres into a chaotic, crushing assault from southeastern Spain.
Death metal band from Wolfsburg, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver provocative, extreme death metal from Lower Saxony's automotive capital.
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