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Fuck Love (2018)
Featured Death Metal Album
Paper Tiger (2025)
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Featured Groove Metal Album
State Of Unrest (2023)
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Heavy metal band from Munster, Germany, active since 2009. They deliver classic heavy metal with strong riffs and driving energy from the Westphalian heartland.
A Connecticut groove metal act bringing heavy, syncopated riffing and rhythmic aggression to a state with a smaller but dedicated extreme music community, formed in 2022.
Progressive thrash metal band from Germany, formed in 2023. They merge intricate progressive arrangements with the speed and aggression of thrash.
Minneapolis project fusing black metal's cold atmosphere with gothic metal's melodic darkness and industrial metal's mechanical, synthetic textures into a multi-layered sound reflecting the upper Midwest.
Bellingham doom and stoner act riding the Pacific Northwest's deep tradition of heavy, haze-filled riffing, crafting slow-burning, psychedelic passages that emphasize tone and mood over velocity.
Hartford death metal band formed in 2019, channeling the bleak, industrial edge of Connecticut's former manufacturing centers into dense, punishing death metal.
Toledo death metal act delivering dense, grinding brutality that thrives in the industrial Midwest, with a straight-ahead approach to death metal's heaviest and most unrelenting characteristics.
Oakland black metal project bringing a distinctly West Coast sensibility to the genre — atmospheric, experimental, and influenced by the Bay Area's long history of pushing extreme music into unconventional territory.
Death-thrash band from Warsaw, active since 2016. Carrion Breed channels aggressive extreme metal from the Polish capital.
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