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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/13 @ The Pyramid Scheme, Grand Rapids
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Southern Decay is a sludge metal band from San Antonio, Texas, formed in 2023, channeling the slow corrosive weight of Southern sludge into the fertile Texas heavy music scene.
Southern Dose of Rebellion is a groove metal band from New Braunfels, Texas, formed in 2012, laying down heavy, mid-paced riffs rooted in the groove metal tradition with a Southern Texan sensibility.
Razor-sharp Thrash Metal from Austin.
Southern Heretics are a Duncan, Oklahoma band formed in 2014 that fuses Southern metal's gritty, bluesy heaviness with the speed and ferocity of thrash, carving out a regionally distinctive sound from the Oklahoma underground.
Southern Tongues is an Ohio death metal and hardcore band formed in 2019, bringing the visceral collision of extreme metal and hardcore aggression that defined bands working the boundary between the two genres in the American underground.
Southern Whiskey Rebellion is a New Orleans, Louisiana band formed in 2005 whose Southern/stoner metal sound draws from the region's bluesy, hazy heaviness, combining the slow burn of stoner metal with distinctly Louisianan grit.
Southgate is a Portland, Oregon progressive deathcore band formed in 2009, layering the technical complexity and dynamic ambition of progressive metal atop deathcore's crushing low-end rhythmic foundation.
Southpaw pair heavy and power metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2016. Their left-handed-fighter name channels the tactical advantage of unorthodox approach into anthemic compositions.
Southview is a heavy metal band from Rochelle, Illinois, formed in 2015 that blends traditional heavy metal with Southern metal influences, delivering a riff-driven sound rooted in American metal's blue-collar heartland tradition.
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