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Featured Album
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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New York black/sludge outfit operating in the space between blackened tremolo ferocity and the slow, grinding weight of sludge — an uneasy tension that gives their sound a lurching, unpredictable menace.
NWOBHM/heavy metal band from Gloucester, formed in 2020. Their sound channels the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the Gloucestershire cathedral city.
Idola is a sludge metal band from Bologna, Italy, active since 2016 and delivering crushing, suffocating heaviness from the low end. The project channels the abrasive, punishing weight of sludge metal.
Santa Cruz black metal entity active since 2009, harnessing the fog and coastal desolation of the California central coast into a raw, ritualistic sound that refuses the clean production of city-scene peers.
Idolatress is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2016 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Idolatria is a black metal project from Pordenone, Italy, active since 2015 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Central California's Orcutt-based death/groove/alternative hybrid brings an unpredictable stylistic restlessness to the table, fusing groove metal's rhythmic punch with death metal grit and alternative metal's appetite for texture.
Black metal from Marshalltown, Iowa — an act that proves the genre's nihilistic fire burns just as cold in the flat, windswept heartland as in any Scandinavian forest.
Pennsylvania's slam/brutal death/goregrind entity named after the world's largest mantis, matching that predator's lethality with a sound designed to maximize bodily damage per minute since 2023.
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