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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Black/doom metal project from Clinton Township, Michigan, formed in 2024, combining the oppressive weight of doom metal with the icy atmosphere of black metal.
Modesto, California doom and sludge metal band formed in 2016, conjuring thick, oppressive heaviness through slow tempos, distorted low-end, and a bleak sonic palette.
Malmo's Subfret deliver progressive death metal from Sweden's Oresund coast since 2021. Their below-the-fret name channels the technical precision of guitar craftsmanship into compositions of musically ambitious extremity.
Pisa's Subhuman pair death and thrash metal from the Tuscan tower city since 2005. Two decades of activity have honed their aggressive approach into something reliably brutal and time-tested.
Novara's Subhuman Hordes merge death metal and grindcore from the Piedmontese plains since 2015. Their horde-mentality name channels the overwhelming force of numbers into dense, relentless extremity.
Brutal death metal band from Ecorse, Michigan, formed in 2022, delivering pulverizing extremity in the vein of the Midwest's tradition of uncompromising underground brutality.
Subhumans are one of the defining English anarcho-punk bands, formed in Wiltshire in 1980 and later associated with Bath through their ongoing releases and activity. Led by Dick Lucas, the band moved quickly from demo material into a run of early EPs and albums that became core documents of political UK punk. The Day the Country Died, From the Cradle to the Grave, Worlds Apart, and EP-LP mixed fast, jagged punk with unusually long-form writing, sharp social criticism, and lyrics aimed at war, state power, consumerism, conformity, surveillance, and ecological collapse. Subhumans split in the mid-1980s, with members later active in related projects, but returned for later phases of touring and recording. Internal Riot and Crisis Point showed that the band's anger and wit had not dulled, updating their themes without abandoning the raw attack that made the early records last. Their music remains urgent, articulate, and deeply tied to DIY punk ethics.
Detroit thrash and heavy metal band formed in 2016, channeling the Motor City's hard-edged tradition into a sound that honors classic metal while maintaining contemporary urgency.
Death metal band from Huntsville, Alabama, formed in 2018, contributing to the state's growing extreme metal scene with straightforward death metal aggression.
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