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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Green Man Rising (Demo) (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Doom-sludge act from Kyiv, formed in 2017. Cold Shell delivers crushing, oppressive heaviness from the Ukrainian capital.
Cold Slither plays heavy metal rooted in the blue-collar, blue-collar tradition of 80s power and traditional metal, a band that wears its genre love plainly and makes no pretense about it.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina's Cold Spine bridges deathcore's breakneck heaviness with death metal's technical darkness, bringing a coastal Southern brutality that has nothing to do with the tourist strip.
Groove-thrash metal band from Pockau in the Erzgebirge, Germany, formed in 2016. They blend heavy grooves with thrash aggression from the Saxon mountain region.
Tampa's Cold Steel emerged from Florida's hardcore and thrash crossover scene, bringing the pit mentality of hardcore crashing into the riff-forward intensity of thrash — fast, mean, and built for live destruction.
Seattle's Cold Steele draws from classic heavy metal tradition, occupying the same Pacific Northwest metal underground that quietly sustained the genre through lean years in one of America's most musically restless cities.
Connecticut's Cold Sweat mined the fertile late-80s heavy metal vein of the Northeast corridor, playing melodic, hook-driven metal with a gritty sincerity common to the era's club circuit.
Gothenburg death/black metal act formed in 2011, merging the city's legendary death metal heritage with black metal's atmospheric intensity. Their fusion approach draws from Sweden's deepest wells of extreme metal.
Richmond, Virginia's Cold Touch blends hardcore's confrontational energy with thrash metal's technical rigor, part of a Richmond underground that has long punched far above its population weight in extreme music.
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