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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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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sugar Hill, Georgia black metal outfit Crooked Cross deliver cold, misanthropic riffs and bleak atmosphere rooted in the rawer traditions of the Southern American underground.
Tacoma crossover/thrash act Crooked Cross fuse punk aggression with thrash metal riffing and hardcore bite, channeling the Pacific Northwest's DIY ethic into relentless pit-ready output.
Fayetteville, North Carolina hardcore/thrash outfit Crooked Cult dish out tight, fast, and unrelenting crossover material rooted in the confrontational traditions of both genres.
Raw, furious blackened death metal. Project of JR Escalante (Nocturnal Hollow). Influenced by Mayhem, Darkthrone, and Inquisition.
Black metal project from Gothenburg, formed in 2019. Crooked Horns channels raw, occult black metal from Sweden's west coast.
Los Angeles grindcore/power metal oddity Crookedcop merge the blasting chaos of grind with the bombast of power metal in a deliberately disorienting and genre-defiant collision.
Crookhead is a progressive death metal band from Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2016. The band operates as an independent act and maintains profiles on Bandcamp and SoundCloud where their material is available. They are part of the growing progressive extreme metal underground scene in the interior of São Paulo state.
Gothic metal band from Essenbach in Lower Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2020. They weave melancholic atmospheres and dark beauty into a heavy, emotionally resonant sound.
Groove metal band from Cuneo, Piedmont, formed in 2016. Crop Circle delivers heavy, rhythmically-driven grooves from the foothills of the Maritime Alps.
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