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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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Progressive metal band from Londonderry, Northern Ireland, active since 2006. With two decades of activity, Countervela craft intricate progressive metal from Northern Ireland.
Black metal band from Leiden, one of the longest-running acts in Dutch black metal with origins dating to 1993. Countess has spent over three decades as a stalwart of the Netherlands' black metal underground.
San Francisco black metal act Countess Erzsebet take their name from the infamous Hungarian noblewoman and channel that dark history into cold, bleak compositions. Their music sits in the raw and ritualistic end of the American black metal underground.
Death metal band from Grenoble, France, formed in 2014. They deliver crushing death metal from the French Alpine capital.
Metalcore band from the Stuttgart/Karlsruhe corridor, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver heavy breakdowns and melodic passages from Baden-Wurttemberg.
Melodic death metal band from Hertfordshire, England, formed in 2014. Countless Skies have built a strong reputation for their epic, emotionally charged melodic death metal.
Lacey, Washington's Countless the Dead play melodic death metal with an emphasis on layered guitar harmonies and driving rhythms. They pull from the Gothenburg playbook while injecting Pacific Northwest grit into the formula.
Reno band Countress occupy an unusual space between metalcore and stoner metal, mixing heavy downtuned groove with the hooky structures of melodic metalcore. The combination gives their sound a hazy, desert-road quality.
Austin's County Hell splice black metal fury with crust punk nihilism and death metal weight, playing music that sounds like it was made outdoors and after dark. They're part of Austin's active extreme underground and bring a raw, combative energy to every release.
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