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Featured Album
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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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Richmond, Virginia's Resin Lung emerged in 2014 from one of the South's most storied heavy music cities, trading in doom and sludge that carries the weight of Richmond's formidable extreme metal legacy. Their compositions move slowly and deliberately, building oppressive atmospheres over long, crushing timescales. In a city that birthed bands like GWAR and Lamb of God, they've found their own suffocating niche.
Melodic thrash metal band from Southport, England, active since 2016. Their approach delivers melody-driven thrash from the Merseyside seaside town.
Resist the Ocean is a metalcore band from Nuremberg, Germany, formed in 2014. The band delivers heavy breakdowns and melodic passages from the Franconian metal scene.
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Seattle's Resistant Culture are one of the more politically charged acts in the American extreme underground, weaving crossover thrash, grindcore, crust punk, and death metal into a multi-genre assault that has carried an indigenous and anti-colonial perspective since 2010. Their music is as ideologically committed as it is sonically relentless — breakneck speeds and D-beat rhythms underscoring protest and resistance. Few bands in the underground carry this kind of conviction across so many subgenres at once.
Progressive metal band from Belgrade, Serbia, active since 2016. Their approach delivers technically ambitious compositions from the Serbian capital.
Technical Melodic / Progressive Heavy Metal out of Texas.
Seattle's Resistor have been operating in the melodic death metal space since 2008, drawing from the Gothenburg tradition while filtering it through the Pacific Northwest's heavier and more atmospheric sensibility. Layered harmonized guitar work and aggressive rhythm sections define their approach, showcasing a band that has sharpened its craft over more than fifteen years. A steady presence in a region with fierce competition for extreme metal attention.
Reskemor is a doom/death metal band from Móstoles near Madrid, Spain, formed in 2019. The band delivers crushing doom-death from Madrid's southern metropolitan area.
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