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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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Heavy Death Metal out of Texas.
Wilmington, Delaware death metal band representing one of the smaller states' contributions to the genre's underground network. Their sound sticks to the essentials of brutal, riff-heavy death metal.
Black metal band from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2021. They craft intense, atmospheric black metal from the former West German capital.
Batesville, Indiana act combining death metal brutality with the groove and drawl of Southern-inflected metal, bringing something distinctly regional to the extreme end of the spectrum. The rural Midwest heaviness they carry is genuine.
Black metal project from the Limburg towns of Grevenbicht and Sittard, active since 2009. Corpusculum channels atmospheric black metal from the Netherlands' deep south.
Doom and pagan metal band from Cork, Ireland, active since 2009. Corr Mhóna — named after an Irish bog — crafts slow, earthy doom metal infused with Celtic mysticism and sung partly in Irish.
Chicago industrial metal and experimental supergroup featuring members of Eyehategod, Nachtmystium, and Yakuza, built around noise, aggression, and a deeply unsettling sense of dread. Their records feel less like albums and more like transmissions from somewhere very dark.
Denver, Colorado band blending melodic death metal sweep with metalcore structure and death metal brutality, navigating the high-altitude scene's taste for ambitious extreme music. Their sound balances ferocity with melodic reach.
Queens-based melodic death metal act channeling the genre's Scandinavian influences through a distinctly East Coast lens, merging clean melodic riffing with genuine heaviness. The New York underground provides a gritty backdrop to their polished extreme metal approach.
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