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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Dallas, Texas death metal outfit active since 2013, grinding out no-frills brutality rooted in the direct, punishing tradition of American death metal.
Sludge metal band from Lansdale, Pennsylvania, formed in 2014, built on slow, crushing riffs and the corrosive sonic weight characteristic of the genre.
Trust from Nanterre deliver heavy metal and hard rock that evolved toward mainstream rock, having rebuilt their sound since their 1998 reformation. One of France's most recognized metal-adjacent acts, their Parisian suburb base has been home to decades of anthemic, politically charged compositions.
Progressive death metal band from Toledo, Ohio, active since 2013, combining the technical ambition of progressive metal with the aggression and heaviness of death metal.
Truth Be Told is a metalcore and thrash metal band from the Stirling/Falkirk area of Scotland, formed in 2014. They fuse aggressive thrash riffing with the breakdowns and intensity of modern metalcore.
Pennsylvania death/thrash metal band formed in 2020, channeling the punishing crossover of extreme thrash aggression and death metal brutality that defined late-1980s underground metal.
Omaha, Nebraska act founded in 2016 that began as a pure black metal project before evolving into a blackened death metal band, building a catalog that tracks the shift in their sonic extremity.
Truth of Heresy is a groove/thrash metal band from Macclesfield, England, formed in 2024. They deliver hard-hitting, riff-driven metal that merges thrash aggression with heavyweight groove.
Black metal project out of Bloomington, Indiana, formed in 2020, operating in the raw and atmospheric end of the genre with the studied isolation common to solo or small-unit underground black metal.
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