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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Long-running black metal project rooted in Lynchburg, Virginia before relocating to Cheyenne, Wyoming, dealing in death, disease, and perversion across a career spanning from 2003.
Bakersfield, California slam/brutal death metal band formed in 2024, a new entry in the West Coast extreme metal underground.
Caligo is a stoner/doom/sludge metal band from Brasília, Brazil, formed around 2012 by bassist Sandro Santos alongside musicians from other local acts including Death Slam, Terror Revolucionário, Isolate, and I.T.D. Their sound draws heavily on classic doom forebears such as Black Sabbath, Cathedral, Saint Vitus, Pentagram, and Candlemass, and some of their compositions incorporate poetry by Brazilian writer Augusto dos Anjos. The band has released a demo titled “Templo da Descrença” and the single “Monstro Manto,” and members have also contributed to the doom metal supergroup Summa.
Death metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver aggressive, guttural death metal from the historic Franconian city.
Nashville progressive metal outfit formed in 2011, Call Me Savage blend technical ambition with melodic sensibility in a city better known for country than heavy music.
Death metal and deathcore band from Duisburg, Germany, active since 2007. They combine the aggression of death metal with metalcore's breakdowns and melodic elements from the industrial Ruhr region.
Salt Lake City's Call of Madness fuse melodic death and traditional heavy metal into a dynamic sound that has been active since 2016, balancing brutality with accessible hooks.
A short-lived Philadelphia death/doom project, Call of Pripyat channeled sorrow, bleakness, and apocalyptic dread into crushing compositions before splitting up in 2022.
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