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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Death/thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, delivering relentless aggression with an urgency reflected in their name since 2017. Their crossover of death and thrash metal channels the raw energy of the German capital's underground scene.
A brand-new act out of Berkeley, Early Demise formed in 2025 at the meeting point of groove metal's chug and nu-metal's attitude, bringing the Bay Area's characteristic edge to a revival-minded heaviness.
Death/thrash metal act from Finland that emerged in 2025. They bring raw, punky extreme metal energy to the Finnish underground.
Los Angeles's Early Man has been a reliable deliverer of meat-and-potatoes heavy/speed/thrash metal since 2004, with a sound that wears its classic influences openly and plays them with genuine muscle.
Formed in Los Angeles in 2020, Early Moods arrived in the middle of a doom revival and immediately distinguished themselves with a hazy, vintage-leaning sound that owes as much to '70s hard rock as it does to contemporary doom.
Death metal band from London, England active since 2012. They deliver brutal death metal from the heart of the British capital.
Death metal and metalcore hybrid from Vollersode, Germany, blending guttural extremity with hardcore-influenced breakdowns since 2014. Their provocatively named approach fuses the aggression of both genres into a single, punishing assault.
Earshot are a Los Angeles alternative metal band whose early-2000s work combined post-grunge melody, heavy guitar texture, and Wil Martin's dramatic vocal style. Formed in 1999, the band broke through with Letting Go, an album that placed songs such as "Get Away" and "Not Afraid" in the same modern-rock environment as Tool-influenced alternative metal, post-grunge, and darker radio rock. Two and The Silver Lining continued that approach, balancing brooding atmosphere with accessible choruses and riffs that favored mood as much as aggression. Earshot fit hard-rock and metal-adjacent scope through alternative metal, heavy modern rock production, and recurring use of distorted, weighty arrangements. Their music is not extreme, but it carries a shadowed intensity that separates it from lighter post-grunge acts. The band's strongest moments come from tension between melody and unease: bass lines circle, guitars thicken the room, and Martin's vocals stretch over the songs with a haunted, sustained quality. Earshot's catalog captures a specific moment in American rock when heavy music, introspection, and mainstream radio ambitions overlapped in dark, polished form.
The Olympia originals. Earth essentially invented drone doom in the early 1990s, and Dylan Carlson's project has never stopped pushing — from the sub-bass cathedral of their early work to the spaced-out psychedelic territory they've since occupied.
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