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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Flagstaff, Arizona's Face Pulp waste no time — formed in 2022, they grind through death metal, grindcore, and hardcore punk in the most uncompromising way the high desert allows.
Out of Ashtabula, Ohio, Face Rot have been running blackened grindcore since 2013 — short, vicious songs that swap grind's antisocial energy for a colder, more nihilistic black metal atmosphere.
Phoenix's Face the Flames lean into the slow and the heavy, crafting stoner-doom that trades the desert city's relentless heat into fuzz-soaked riffs and brooding, patient tempos since 2017.
Neenah, Wisconsin's Face the Horde have been combining death and thrash metal since 2019, channeling Midwest grit into tight, aggressive riffing that draws from both genres without splitting the difference.
Face the Misery is a symphonic death metal/deathcore band from Le Mans, France, formed in 2018. The band layers orchestral arrangements over death metal and deathcore foundations.
Face the Unknown is a thrash metal band from Stockton-on-Tees, England, formed in 2010. The band delivers aggressive thrash metal from the northeastern English town.
Face the Wall is a death/thrash metal band from Brusno, Slovakia, formed in 2024. They bring aggressive death/thrash to the central Slovakian countryside, representing the newest generation of Slovak extreme metal.
Marshfield, Missouri's Face the Wheel deal in the classic intersection of heavy and thrash metal, putting meat on the bones of a sound that's been core to American metal since 2018.
Face the Wind is a metalcore band from Kharkiv, Ukraine, formed in 2020. They deliver modern metalcore from Ukraine's second city, which has faced sustained bombardment since the full-scale invasion of 2022.
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