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Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania thrash metal band formed in 2016, drawing on both Bay Area and East Coast thrash traditions to deliver ferocious, riff-driven material with the city's characteristic grit.
Austin industrial noise duo. Abrasive, confrontational electronic-infused heaviness.
Death metal band from Santa Fe, New Mexico, formed in 2018, delivering raw and uncompromising death metal from one of the Southwest's more unlikely metal hotbeds.
San Antonio, Texas heavy metal act with roots going back to 1989, representing the enduring Texas traditional metal scene with a style built on classic heavy metal riffs and songwriting.
Stockton, California heavy and thrash metal band also formed in 1989, blending the melodic directness of traditional heavy metal with the aggression and speed of thrash.
Crossover thrash/hardcore band from Aarschot in Flemish Brabant, active since 2017, blending the speed of thrash metal with hardcore's confrontational energy. Their crossover approach creates a high-energy fusion that bridges metal and punk communities.
New York post-black metal and shoegaze band formed in 2020, combining the abrasive tremolo-picked intensity of black metal with the ethereal, heavily reverbed textures of shoegaze to create immersive, emotionally layered soundscapes.
Rome's Stremonium deliver doom metal named for the Datura genus since 2025. Their poisonous-botanical name and capital-city origins frame compositions of toxic, overwhelming heaviness.
Seattle, Washington progressive doom and post-metal band formed in 2010, constructing expansive, introspective compositions that blend the crushing heaviness of doom with the textural sophistication and emotional breadth of post-metal.
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