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Actin' Up (2023)
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Fertile Green (2012)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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The brainchild of San Francisco musician JBOT, Captured by Robots is a one-man grindcore performance art spectacle in which the founder claims to be enslaved by two animatronic robots who shred guitar and drums both live and on record.
Death-thrash band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2020. Capulus channels aggressive riffing and relentless energy rooted in the Irish capital's thriving metal scene.
Experimental black metal project from Smallingerland in Friesland, formed in 2022. Caput Mortuum — an alchemical term for 'dead head' — pushes black metal into avant-garde territory.
Washington state black metal project whose Latin name means head of the world, drawing conceptual inspiration from architectural writer Spiro Kostof.
Lafayette, Indiana thrash/grindcore band using programmed electronic percussion instead of a human drummer, wrapping their aggression in equal parts humor and provocation.
Experimental post-black metal/grindcore/hardcore from Dallas.
Black metal band from Brest in Brittany, France, formed in 2015. They craft atmospheric black metal from the westernmost tip of mainland France.
Brutal death-deathcore act from the Odessa region, formed in 2024. Carabid — named after predatory ground beetles — delivers crushing extremity from southern Ukraine.
Wichita, Kansas act formed in 2014 fusing melodic death metal with groove metal and deathcore, delivering aggressive riffing tempered by melodic hooks.
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