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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/09 @ Mr Smalls Theatre, Millvale
Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Springfield, Illinois death metal band formed in 2013, playing unadorned, aggressive death metal rooted in the classic American tradition of the genre.
Relentless Thrash Metal from Corpus Christi.
New Haven, Connecticut sludge and doom band formed in 2007, combining the tar-thick heaviness of sludge metal with the slow, oppressive weight of traditional doom.
SufferHead bring metalcore to the Novara/Vercelli area of Piedmont since 2017. Their pain-centered name channels emotional and physical suffering into breakdown-heavy compositions of cathartic intensity.
Indiana brutal death metal and slam act formed in 2017, merging the pummeling groove of slam death metal with hardcore aggression for a particularly visceral form of extreme music.
Houston sludge, doom, and post-metal band formed in 2017, weaving the heaviness of sludge with the expansive, introspective textures of post-metal into a brooding and cinematic sound.
Rochester, New York doom and post-metal outfit formed in 2017, blending the slow, melancholic weight of doom metal with the atmospheric breadth of post-metal.
North Carolina project formed in 2020 that combines atmospheric black metal and doom with elements of grindcore, creating a jarring and unconventional blend of introspective bleakness and violent sonic bursts.
Suffering Down channel black/death metal from the Basque town of Loiu near Bilbao, exploring themes of descent and suffering through extreme compositions. Formed in 2020, they bring Basque darkness to the Spanish extreme underground.
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