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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Anderson, South Carolina's Shovelhead take the metalcore blueprint and bend it toward progressive territory, weaving technical ambition and melodic complexity through their work since forming in 2013.
Plainville, Connecticut's Shovelhead work the intersection of classic heavy metal and thrash, drawing on old-school hard rock energy and driving riff craft that favors straightforward muscle over modern production polish.
Richmond, Virginia's Shovelhead A.D., formed in 2024, come out swinging with a groove-and-thrash hybrid that suits the city's fertile underground metal history — heavy, mid-paced punishment with an emphasis on riff momentum.
Shovell channel doom and stoner metal from Barcelona, building heavy, riff-driven compositions. Emerging in 2025, they bring digging-deep heaviness to the Catalan underground.
Saint Petersburg's Show Me a Dinosaur blend black metal and post-metal since 2011. Over a decade, their childlike-wonder name has yielded compositions that merge atmospheric expansiveness with the weight of extinction.
Ripping Death Metal / Goregrind from Austin.
Show Me the Body formed in New York City and built a hostile, unmistakable sound from hardcore punk, noise rock, sludge weight, hip-hop production logic, and Julian Cashwan Pratt's distorted banjo. Body War introduced a band more interested in pressure and texture than genre etiquette, with Harlan Steed's bass tone and the drums turning songs into concrete slabs of rhythm. Dog Whistle and Trouble the Water sharpened the politics and the production, framing urban displacement, community defense, grief, and survival through abrasive repetition and shouted confrontation. The broader CORPUS network also matters because Show Me the Body treat their music as part of a scene infrastructure, not just a recording project. Their heaviness is unusual: the banjo can sound like a broken guitar, the bass carries sludge-level mass, and the vocals deliver punk urgency without romanticizing chaos. The band fit metal-adjacent and hardcore scope because the songs hit with physical force, but their deeper identity is New York noise, community anger, and rhythmic stubbornness turned into a live-wire system of resistance.
Reykjavik's Show Me Wolves merge black metal, metalcore, and progressive elements into an eclectic hybrid since 2015. Their genre-blending approach reflects Iceland's tradition of musical boundary-crossing and creative fearlessness.
Phoenix, Arizona's Show n Tell have been delivering straightforward heavy metal since 2019, carrying the city's tradition of sun-baked hard-rocking power through direct songwriting and a classically rooted approach to the genre.
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