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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Strangers in the Attic blend melodic heavy, groove, and alternative metal from Zurich, creating a versatile sound that moves between aggressive riffing and melodic accessibility. Their genre-fluid approach reflects the diverse influences of the modern Swiss metal scene.
Heavy metal act from Severna Park, Maryland, formed in 2024, with an eclectic approach to the genre that draws from multiple metal traditions.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania thrash metal band formed in 2022, delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash in the tradition of Bay Area and East Coast thrash with a modern underground energy.
Strangled deliver thrash and death metal from Hamburg, combining the velocity of thrash with death metal's crushing weight. Formed in 2019, they bring choking intensity to the Hanseatic extreme metal scene.
Los Angeles-based progressive death metal band formed in 2013, combining the technical and compositional complexity of progressive metal with the ferocity and downtuned brutality of death metal.
Stranglion Rot deal in death metal from the Finnish underground, channeling the suffocating decay their composite name describes. Active since 2012, they bring strangulation and rot to the Finnish death metal scene.
Ohio-based sludge and stoner metal act formed in 2021, fusing the molasses-slow heaviness of sludge with the fuzz-driven groove of stoner rock for a sound rooted in the American heavy underground.
San Diego, California brutal death metal band formed in 2019, delivering the hyper-blasting percussion, guttural vocals, and dense, down-tuned riffing central to the brutal death metal style.
Technical death metal band from São Paulo, formed in 1991. They released two demos — Portal to Doomsday Celebration (1993) and Hubris (1994) — before recording their sole full-length, Between Nothing and Eternity, at Anonimato Studios in São Paulo in April–May 1995; Death frontman Chuck Schuldiner responded to the band's demo submission with a postcard praising their material.
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