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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Eternity's Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential (2025)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Reo is a heavy/thrash metal band from Santurtzi in the Basque province of Bizkaia, Spain, active since 2009. The band delivers aggressive heavy-thrash from the industrial Basque port town on the Nervión estuary.
Deltona, Florida's REO RapeVan merge sludge and stoner metal into something swamp-thick and deliberately abrasive, fully committed to the underground's most transgressive naming traditions. Formed in 2020, they lean into the lo-fi, mean-spirited corner of the sludge spectrum where Eyehategod's shadow falls longest. Florida's heat and humidity seem baked into every slow-motion riff.
Named after the iconic Indonesian folk art form, Los Angeles' Reog bring a multicultural undercurrent to classic heavy metal, forming in 2017 within one of the world's most diverse cities. Their approach is rooted in traditional metal architecture — muscular riffing, melodic sensibility — while nodding to cultural sources outside the genre's typical European and American frame. A distinctive identity in the LA metal underground.
Chicago's Repentance launched in 2021 blending melodic groove metal with metalcore, sitting comfortably in the tradition of hard-hitting Midwestern bands that prioritize groove and aggression over pure technicality. The city's blue-collar metal legacy — think Disturbed, Soil — echoes through their emphasis on rhythmic punch and vocal hooks. A young band with a clear sense of purpose.
Repentless Equestrian is a groove/thrash metal band from Deggendorf in Lower Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2022. The band combines groove metal's rhythmic punch with thrash velocity from the Danube valley of eastern Bavaria.
Doom/death metal project from the UK, active since 2013. Their approach combines doom metal's crushing weight with death metal's ferocity.
Reperias is a symphonic black metal project from Freiberg in Saxony, Germany, formed in 2023. The project layers orchestral grandeur over black metal fury from the historic silver-mining city in the Erzgebirge foothills.
Boston's Replacire are one of the more cerebral technical death metal acts operating in New England, forming in 2012 and building a reputation for compositions that are dense and disorienting without surrendering melody entirely. Their music rewards patient, attentive listening — rhythmic structures shift beneath you, while lead work snakes through impossible angles. They're one of the American tech-death underground's best-kept secrets.
Groove metal/metalcore band from Debrecen, Hungary, formed in 2024. Their approach combines groove metal's rhythmic drive with metalcore dynamics.
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