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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Progressive metal band from Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, active since 2012, featuring vocalist Carl Sentance. Their album 'Behind the Veil of Oblivion' critiques modern society's loss of authentic values through seven tracks of thoughtful, philosophically charged progressive metal.
Black metal project from Piedmont, formed in 2025. Colombario — Italian for 'columbarium,' a vault for cremation urns — channels funereal themes through raw black metal.
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Berkeley's Colonoscopy commits fully to brutal death metal's most repulsive aesthetic tendencies, delivering dense, guttural heaviness with the Bay Area's characteristic technical edge lurking beneath the gore.
Seattle's Colony Drop takes its name from a cataclysmic sci-fi weapon and plays accordingly — crossover thrash that hits hard and fast, steeped in the Pacific Northwest DIY ethos that keeps the scene honest.
Bergen-based black metal project formed in 2023, drawing from multiple stylistic veins to create a varied and unpredictable sonic palette. Their approach defies easy categorization within Norway's storied black metal tradition.
Dallas's Color of Aum brings progressive metal's compositional complexity into metalcore's emotionally charged framework, a Dallas act that pushes beyond the genre's standard templates toward something genuinely exploratory.
Oakland's Color of Death marries melodic death metal's guitar-driven dynamism with the Bay Area's tradition of technically precise brutality, carving melody out of darkness without softening the core aggression.
Dreamy metalcore from Austin with genre-bending hooks.
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