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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Heavy and power metal band from Kent, Washington, formed in 2010, delivering melodic, guitar-driven metal in the classic American power metal tradition, part of the Pacific Northwest's active heavy metal community.
Death and thrash metal band from Asbury Park, New Jersey, formed in 2010, combining the technical aggression of death metal with the speed and attitude of thrash in the tradition of East Coast extreme metal.
Blackened death and thrash metal band from Pullman, Washington, formed in 2010, fusing the darkness of black metal with the technical brutality of death metal and the kinetic energy of thrash in the Eastern Washington underground.
Baltimore, Maryland band formed in 2010, working across heavy, power, and thrash metal styles with a broad approach that spans the melodic grandeur of power metal and the aggressive drive of thrash.
Death metal band from Troy, New York, formed in 2010, contributing to the upstate New York underground with a straightforward, brutality-focused approach to the genre.
Progressive and heavy metal band from Bowling Green, Ohio, formed in 2010, incorporating grunge and progressive rock influences alongside traditional heavy metal, yielding a sound that is more eclectic than most of their namesakes.
Atmospheric black metal band from Nashville, Tennessee, formed in 2022, weaving sweeping, textured soundscapes within the black metal framework. Nashville's emerging extreme metal underground provides an unexpected but fitting backdrop for their expansive, nature-infused sound.
Boston, Massachusetts black metal and crust punk band formed in 2022, fusing the raw aggression of crust punk with black metal's darkness and atmosphere. Their name references the stryga, a witch-like creature in Polish and South Slavic folklore.
Heavy Heavy Metal / Hard Rock out of Texas.
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