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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Austin crust/sludge outfit Cross Builder drag heavy, corroded riffs through a punk-rooted framework, trading in the grimy intersection of crust punk nihilism and sludge metal density.
Black-death metal band from Kaiserslautern, Germany, formed in 2020. They channel sacrilegious darkness through a fusion of black and death metal from the Palatinate.
St. Louis crossover/thrash act Cross Examination tear through pit-ready anthems with razor-sharp riffs and hardcore attitude, carrying on the crossover tradition in the Missouri underground.
Hungarian death metal project formed in 2014. Cross Eyed delivers unrelenting death metal brutality.
Mastic, New York death metal outfit Cross Fade bring Long Island's long tradition of underground death metal brutality to bear with punishing, hook-driven riff work.
Tampa brutal death metal act Cross Gnawer hail from one of the most storied cities in extreme metal history, delivering grotesque, gore-laden riff assaults in the proud tradition of Florida's death metal scene.
Death-groove act from Mińsk Mazowiecki near Warsaw, formed in 2017. Cross Hatred merges death metal heaviness with rhythmic groove from the Masovian outskirts.
Fall River, Massachusetts black/doom/heavy metal act Cross Inversion draw on the bleak industrial heritage of their former mill city, crafting dark and oppressive metal rooted in the New England underground.
Anchorage black metal act Cross Rot conjures bleak, primitive darkness rooted in the isolation of the Alaskan wilderness. Their raw approach draws on second-wave traditions with a cold, unrelenting edge.
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