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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Starkville, Mississippi band formed in 2024 playing sludge and stoner metal, a newly emerged voice in the South's expanding heavy underground.
Iowa brutal death metal band formed in 2018, delivering relentlessly punishing compositions marked by ferocious tempos, guttural vocals, and dense, pulverizing guitar work.
Akron, Ohio band formed in 2012 playing doom-laden sludge metal rooted in the tradition of the Rust Belt's heavy underground, characterized by slow crushing riffs and bleak atmospherics.
Slug Lord reign over doom and stoner metal from Tampere, building riff-heavy, glacially paced compositions worthy of their gastropod royalty. Active since 2011, they bring slug-monarch heaviness to the Pirkanmaa stoner/doom scene.
Slug Mammoth channel stoner metal from Lahti, building massive, slow-moving compositions that combine slug-pace deliberation with mammoth-scale heaviness. Active since 2016, they bring prehistoric fuzz to the Paijat-Hame scene.
Milwaukee band formed in 2016 fusing death, thrash, and groove metal into a hard-hitting hybrid that reflects the Midwest's long tradition of no-frills, riff-driven heaviness.
Slugbeast grind goregrind from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2019. Their mollusk-monster portmanteau channels the grotesquerie of slug-creature hybrids into compositions of anonymous, compact extremity.
Grand Rapids, Michigan band formed in 2021 forging a volatile mix of black metal, death metal, and sludge, combining extremity and abrasion across a broad spectrum of underground styles.
Greenville, South Carolina band formed in 2022 blending grindcore, death metal, and crust punk into a furious, politically-charged noise assault in the tradition of Southern hardcore-metal crossover.
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