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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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Black metal project from Łódź, formed in 2020. Constant Nausea channels relentless, sickening black metal from central Poland.
Death metal act from Katwijk aan Zee, South Holland, active since 2014. Constant Paranoia channels relentless death metal from the Dutch seaside.
Tulsa's Constant Peril channel death metal, grindcore, and hardcore into a high-velocity assault that burns short and hot, drawing from Oklahoma's scrappy underground to produce raw, confrontational noise.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri death metal outfit Constant Torment build their sound on grinding riff repetition and guttural punishment, grinding through the Midwest underground with unrelenting blunt-force delivery.
Progressive metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2019. They craft intricate compositions from the Greek capital.
Experimental black-death metal band from Grenoble, France, formed in 2022. They push extreme metal into unconventional territory from the French Alps.
Formed in Cape Town in 2018 by veterans of Wildernessking and Crow Black Sky, Constellatia craft aching, cinematic post-black metal that draws equally from the atmospheric grandeur of Wolves in the Throne Room and the melancholic sweep of Agalloch, with lyrical themes centered on human perseverance rather than black metal's customary misanthropy. Their debut The Language of Limbs (2019) earned them a deal with Season of Mist, and their sophomore Magisterial Romance (2022) further established them as one of the Southern Hemisphere's most distinctive extreme metal voices.
Cape Coral, Florida's Constellation combine doom metal's funeral tempos with stoner rock haze, crafting slow-burning heavy music that fits the sweltering Gulf Coast setting they call home.
Atmospheric black metal project from Finland, formed in 2016. They create vast, cosmic-themed atmospheres within a raw black metal framework.
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