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Ankara's Shrine of Denial deliver blackened death metal from the Turkish capital since 2025. Their name of a temple built on refusal channels the sacred architecture of rejection into compositions of freshly-minted extremity.
Chicago's Shrine of Flesh merge deathcore and death metal into a dense, pit-ready assault, the band's Illinois roots feeding into a sound that reflects Chicago's long history of producing technically demanding and physically punishing extreme music since 2015.
Shrine of Maggots channel black/thrash metal from North Rhine-Westphalia, their putrid name setting the tone for music that revels in filth and aggression. Formed in 2024, they bring bestial extremity to the western German underground.
Palm Springs, California's Shrine of Resurrection, formed in 2021, pursue progressive death metal filtered through metalcore's structural sensibility — ambitious compositions that balance technical complexity with the direct aggression of the modern heavy underground.
Springfield, Missouri's Shrine of Skulls arrived in 2024 delivering straightforward death metal with an old-school attitude — the band favors riff-driven brutality and a no-frills approach that recalls the genre's early-90s underground origins.
Portland, Oregon's Shrine of the Serpent have been crafting funeral-paced doom/death metal since 2015, their suffocating sound built on glacial tempos, cavernous production, and an atmosphere of irreversible dread that defines the Pacific Northwest's heaviest underground currents.
San Francisco's Shrinebuilder are a supergroup formed in 2009 from members of Sleep, Neurosis, The Melvins, and Scott Kelly's solo projects, combining stoner and doom metal traditions into monolithic, lysergic compositions that draw from the full weight of their members' combined legacies.
Chicago doom and stoner metal outfit formed in 2023, channeling the heavy, haze-drenched weight of slow-grinding riffs and oppressive atmosphere. A young band from the Midwest already staking out territory in the ritualistic end of the doom spectrum.
Shrines of Dying Light are a self-described "melancholic doom metal band from Argovia," with albums "Insomnia" and "Sadness" embodying their focus on emotional weight and crushing deliberation. Their limited-edition digipack releases reflect a commitment to the physical, tactile experience of doom metal.
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