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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Melodic death metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2019. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the West Country.
Call of the Void formed in Denver, Colorado around 2010, formerly operating as Ironhorse, and quickly established themselves as one of the heaviest acts in the American underground by blending grindcore blast beats with crust punk grit and sludge metal weight. Signed to Relapse Records, the band released Dragged Down a Dead End Path (2013), Ageless (2015), and Buried in Light (2019). Their approach draws equally from 1980s hardcore aggression and the nihilistic density of doom.
San Diego's Call of the Wild blend heavy, doom, and stoner metal with hard rock into a thick, riff-driven sound that has been rolling since 2020.
Doom-sludge-stoner act from Russia, formed in 2024. Call of Wrath delivers heavy, slow-burning riffs.
Allentown, Pennsylvania's Call Off Dead traffic in doom and sludge metal, stacking slow, oppressive riffs into a dense wall of sound since 2019.
Melodic death metal band from Preston, England, formed in 2015. They deliver melodic, dynamic death metal from Lancashire.
Melodic death metal outfit from Coachella, California, Call Upon Your Gods have been honing their hook-laden yet aggressive approach since forming in 2017.
Gothic death metal act from Dębica in southeastern Poland, active since 2007. Callahan has spent nearly two decades crafting dark, atmospheric extreme metal from Podkarpacie.
Callamity is a heavy/thrash metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded in 2014. The band blends the Bay Area thrash style with influences from the German and Brazilian thrash schools, alongside broader metal and rock influences. They are an independent act currently active in the Brazilian underground metal scene.
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