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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Hermitage, Pennsylvania death metal band rooted in the Western Pennsylvania tradition of uncompromising underground heaviness. Their material is direct, brutal, and concerned with little beyond effective riff delivery.
Atlanta doom and sludge outfit dragging Southern heaviness through thick walls of distortion and oppressive low-end. Their sound draws from both the misery of doom and the grimed-out grit of the ATL underground.
San Antonio trio fusing black metal's cold menace with the suffocating weight of doom and sludge. Their music moves with deliberate malice, rooted deep in the South Texas underground.
Green Bay act merging industrial metal's mechanical coldness with the brutality of death metal. Their sound is mechanized and crushing, built on rhythmic punishment and processed aggression.
Connecticut post-black metal project weaving folk elements into a harrowing atmospheric framework. Crawl Below balances earthy melodicism against the desolate bleakness of the black metal tradition.
Black metal band from Basel, Switzerland, active since 2012. They craft dark, intense black metal drawn from the genre's atmospheric and aggressive traditions.
Baltimore duo fusing the raw filth of crust punk with sludge metal's lumbering brutality. Their sound is abrasive and uncompromising, carved out of the Chesapeake DIY underground.
Groove-heavy-thrash act from Uppsala, active since 2007. Crawley has spent nearly two decades delivering versatile, riff-driven metal from the historic university city.
Black metal project from Kadıköy on Istanbul's Asian side, active since 2015. Crawling channels atmospheric black metal from the crossroads of Europe and Asia.
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