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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Las Vegas post-metal and doom outfit Commonear build expansive, slow-burn soundscapes in the shadow of the Nevada desert. Their music trades the Strip's glitter for bleak, heavy atmosphere.
Doom and heavy metal band from Norwich, England, formed in 2022. They blend the crushing weight of doom with classic heavy metal hooks from the Norfolk capital.
Thrash metal band from Krefeld, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver aggressive, riff-driven thrash from the left bank of the Lower Rhine.
Waterbury, Connecticut's Communal Misery smash death metal and hardcore into each other with the fury of a band with nothing to prove and everything to destroy. Their sound carries the working-class anger of a post-industrial New England city.
Three-piece progressive power metal unit from Kristiansand signed to Nuclear Blast, whose debut 'Conspiracy in Mind' was voted Album of the Month by Rock Hard magazine upon its 2005 release. Founded by members of Scariot and Ingermanland, the same lineup has remained intact since 2003, crafting intricate yet muscular compositions across a steady discography.
Austin, Texas's Communion inhabit the slowest, heaviest end of doom and drone, letting notes decay into cavernous silence and drone into near-silence before crushing you under their weight. Funeral doom spaciousness and stoner haze combine into something monolithic.
Blackened crust/grind addressing border, religious, and governmental oppression in the El Paso region. Active 2010-2016 on Unholy Anarchy Records.
Hungarian death-grind and sludge project formed in 2021. Communist Holocaust channels politically charged fury through a volatile mix of grindcore blasts and sludge-laden weight.
Maine's Commuted operate in the space where black metal's cold fury meets death metal's brutality, carving out something harsh and unforgiving from the remote New England wilderness. Their sound has the isolation of the state baked into it.
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