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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Savannah's Conquer/Devour bring the swampy weight of Southern metal into slow-grinding sludge territory, soaking their riffs in the oppressive heat and rot of coastal Georgia.
Santa Rosa's Conqueror Jaw traffic in bleak black and death metal extremity, combining grim Northern California misanthropy with the raw violence of old-school underground metal.
Oakland's Conqueror Worm channel Poe-esque dread into a progressive black metal framework, weaving dissonant, intellectually restless compositions that push beyond genre convention.
Los Angeles's Conqueror Worm wade through death doom and crushing sludge, layering suffocating low-end heaviness with the kind of desolate atmosphere that weighs down on the listener like a collapsing structure.
Chapel Hill's Conqueror Wyrm conjure atmospheric black metal saturated in Southern Gothic bleakness, wrapping tremolo-driven cold fury in sweeping, desolate soundscapes from the Carolina woodlands.
Black-thrash metal band from Reims, France, formed in 2014. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash aggression from the Champagne capital.
Black metal project from Przemyśl in far southeastern Poland, formed in 2019. Conquerror channels raw black metal from the city near the Ukrainian border.
St. Louis power and thrash outfit Conquest combine classic heavy metal hooks with the ferocity of thrash, delivering anthemic riffwork and soaring vocals rooted in the Midwest metal underground.
Michigan's Conquest fuse black and thrash metal into a vicious attack, keeping one foot in the raw kvlt tradition while driving their sound forward with relentless speed and aggression.
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