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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Visalia, California doom and sludge metal band formed in 2009, crafting slow, oppressive music that blends the tar-thick weight of sludge with traditional doom metal melancholy, rooted in California's fertile underground heavy scene.
Flagstaff, Arizona band formed in 2013 that fuses black metal, sludge, crust punk, and hardcore into a raw, confrontational sound that reflects the chaotic energy of the desert Southwest's DIY underground.
Oklahoma City sludge metal band formed in 2015, building massive walls of down-tuned, feedback-heavy sound in the tradition of the American Southern sludge underground.
American black and doom metal project formed in 2017, merging the cold malevolence of black metal with the glacial, suffocating heaviness of doom metal into a dismal and atmosphere-heavy sound.
Los Angeles death metal and grindcore band formed in 2017, beginning with a raw grindcore and death metal attack before evolving into a more death/black metal direction, combining brutality and ferocity throughout their catalog.
Tulsa, Oklahoma sludge and doom metal band formed in 2013, heaving through slow, punishing riffs that reflect the heavy, earthbound sound of the American South's underground sludge tradition.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana death metal and hardcore band formed in 2024, merging the brutality of death metal with the blunt aggression of hardcore in a style that fits naturally within Louisiana's long tradition of extreme underground music.
Massachusetts stoner, sludge, and doom metal band formed in 2021, combining fuzz-heavy psychedelic riffing with the slow, oppressive weight of doom and sludge metal across a densely layered sonic palette.
Seattle, Washington doom and stoner metal band formed in 2014, delivering plodding, fuzz-soaked heaviness that draws from the rich tradition of Pacific Northwest heavy music alongside the stoner and doom metal underground.
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