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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Unholy Savior (2015)
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Seminole, Florida death metal and deathcore act blending technical brutality with the kinetic impact of breakdowns. Creatures of Habit brings the Sunshine State's death metal tradition forward into heavier modern territory.
Portland doom and post-metal band building vast, slow-burn soundscapes from heavy, resonant foundations. Creaturess draws on the Pacific Northwest's atmospheric heaviness to craft music that breathes and suffocates in equal measure.
Columbia, Missouri death-thrash band fusing the gruesome imagery of death metal with thrash's driving velocity. Creaturezoid keeps Missouri's underground heavy scene well represented with energetic, aggressive output.
Avant-garde progressive black metal band from Brittany, France, formed in 2018. They push black metal boundaries through experimental and progressive approaches.
San Francisco black metal act drawing its name from Tolkien's dark crow spies and its sound from cold, hateful tradition. Crebain operates in the grim, atmospheric end of American black metal with conviction.
Gothic metalcore act from Oslo, formed in 2025. Crecended blends dark gothic atmospherics with metalcore intensity.
Melodic death metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2022. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the Swabian capital.
Black metal project from Moscow, formed in 2018. Credimus — Latin for 'we believe' — channels atmospheric black metal from the Russian capital.
Heavy metal band from Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic, active since 2007. They forge classic heavy metal with strong riffs and melodic hooks from the Moravian Slovacko region.
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