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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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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Sinner (Unlucky 13th Anniversary Deluxe Edition / Bonus Commentary / Disc Two) (2015)
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Death-thrash metal band from Motril on the Granada coast, Spain, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh aggression to the Andalusian extreme metal scene.
Doom and heavy metal band from Dublin, active since 2009. Council of Tanith delivers crushing, occult-tinged doom with a classic heavy metal foundation.
Tampa death metal veterans Council of the Fallen carry on the city's storied brutal tradition while weaving in melodic death metal leads and hooks. Their releases show a band committed to craft and sonic impact in equal measure.
Doom and heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2014. They craft absurdist doom with classic heavy metal hooks from the Finnish capital.
New Jersey's Count Dirtbagulous take avant-garde black metal in strange and confrontational directions, subverting genre conventions with dark humor and genuine musical weirdness. The name says something about their approach — serious art wearing a ridiculous costume.
Thrash metal band from Regensburg, Germany, active since 2012. They deliver fast, hard-hitting thrash with irreverent energy from the medieval Bavarian city.
Out of Kinder, Louisiana, Count Szar lay down oppressive walls of drone and doom metal, favoring ritual repetition and maximum low-end density. Their music feels rooted in the bayou's sense of isolation and slow-moving dread.
Jacksonville doom/sludge duo Count the Dead play with the kind of bleak economy that the genres demand — slow riffs, heavy hearts, no excess. Their Florida roots add a sun-bleached desolation to the characteristic sludge murk.
Wilmington, Delaware's Count von Count deliver heavy sludge metal that doesn't take itself too seriously while still hitting hard. Behind the tongue-in-cheek name is a band that knows how to craft a slow, grinding assault.
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