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Unreasonable Doubt (2024)
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A Love To Kill For (2023)
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Obnoxious (2022)
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Monroe, Connecticut's He Was a God explore progressive metal's capacity for dramatic, emotionally charged songwriting, building lengthy, dynamic compositions from contrasts between quiet tension and surging heaviness. Formed in 2021, they're still early in their story but already ambitious in scope.
Phoenix death metal act He Who Binds Himself have been trafficking in uncompromising extremity since 2014, rooted in the death metal fundamentals of brutal riffing, down-tuned punishment, and merciless drumming. Their desert-city origins give their aggression a parched, relentless quality.
Spokane's He Who Walks Behind the Rows lift their name from Stephen King's rural horror mythology and apply it to a black/death metal sound steeped in malevolence and ritual menace. Formed in 2021, they belong to the Pacific Northwest's tradition of atmospheric, darkly literary extreme metal.
HE[M'P] is a metalcore band from Douvrin, France, active since 2018 and delivering aggressive, dynamic metal with crushing breakdowns and intense energy. The project channels the power of modern extreme metal.
Head Cleaner is a death metal/grindcore band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2003 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Thrash/speed metal band from Cartagena, Spain, active since 2017. Their blistering attack channels the energy of classic thrash and speed metal from the Mediterranean port city.
Boston's Head in Hand navigate the slow-motion grief of sludge/doom/post-metal, crafting music that moves at the pace of catastrophe and carries the weight to match. Since 2020 they've contributed to a New England extreme scene that has increasingly embraced heavy, meditative forms.
Black/Doom Metal outfit rooted in Stockholm, channeling menacing underground intensity since 2013. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Sludge/drone/doom metal band from Goettingen, Germany, active since 2010. Their monolithic sound combines the most extreme elements of sludge, drone, and doom into earth-shaking, glacially paced compositions with releases including a split with Rule of Coss.
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