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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Doom metal band from Bordeaux, France, formed in 2017. They craft slow, crushing doom from the Aquitaine capital.
Long Island, New York death metal and hardcore hybrid that emerged in 2014, blending the brute force of death metal with the urgent, confrontational energy of hardcore.
Knoxville, Tennessee black and funeral doom metal project, layering glacially slow funeral doom atmospherics beneath raw black metal hostility.
Juneau, Alaska thrash and heavy metal band formed around 2020 that released material independently before splitting up.
Progressive melodic death metal project from Catanzaro, Calabria, formed in 2024. Cardaemort brings technical ambition to southern Italy's extreme metal scene.
Gothic metal act from Utrecht, formed in 2021. Cardamon brings dark, melodic atmospherics to the Dutch gothic metal tradition.
Chicago death metal band active since 1997 and one of the Midwest's most devoted practitioners of old-school horror and gore worship, building a catalog of grotesque, zombie-obsessed brutality across multiple releases.
Albany, New York heavy metal band active since 2008, operating in the traditional metal vein as an independent act.
Czech heavy and thrash metal veterans from Zadverice-Rakova near Zlin, active since 1984. As one of the oldest metal bands in the Czech Republic, Cardiak have maintained a four-decade presence in the country's metal underground.
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