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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Milan's Suicide by Cop have been grinding since 2010. Their darkly specific name and Milanese origins channel urban violence and societal critique into bursts of grindcore extremity.
Monolithic Stoner / Doom Metal from Austin.
Connecticut band formed in 2025 that began with thrash metal influences and shifted toward a doom-oriented sound, exploring the heavier and slower end of the metal spectrum.
Bari's Suicide Emotions channel depressive black metal from Puglia since 2012. Their name merges self-destruction with feeling, creating a framework for music that explores emotional extremity in its rawest form.
Tucson, Arizona atmospheric and depressive black metal band formed in 2013, named after the notorious Aokigahara forest in Japan and drawing on themes of isolation and despair across bleak, fog-laden compositions.
St. Louis, Missouri sludge and groove metal band formed in 2023, merging the grimy heaviness of sludge with the rhythmic punch of groove metal.
Suicide Is Legal practice depressive black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 2023. Their provocatively legalistic name channels the bureaucratization of despair into compositions of anonymous, atmospheric darkness.
Suicide Letters are a depressive black metal band from Chile whose debut EP Happiness Faded Away was released in 2026. The band's lyrical focus centers on themes of suicide, operating in the rawer, introspective tradition of the DSBM subgenre.
Suicide Letters are a depressive black metal band from Chile whose debut EP Happiness Faded Away was released in 2026. The band's lyrical focus centers on themes of suicide, operating in the rawer, introspective tradition of the DSBM subgenre.
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