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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Black-thrash-speed metal band from Germany, formed in 2023. They fuse the raw darkness of black metal with the breakneck velocity of speed and thrash.
Yukon, Oklahoma death/prog act that layers technical, progressive arrangements over death metal's brutish foundation, active since 2013.
Progressive death metal act from Saint Petersburg, active since 2012. Cashan blends technical complexity with death metal from Russia's northern capital.
Sacramento brutal death and slam act formed in 2024, pursuing the genre's most visceral extremes through crushing breakdowns and low-register sonic violence.
Cincinnati heavy and stoner metal band fusing fuzz-drenched riffs and swaggering grooves with the hard-rock DNA that underpins classic heavy metal.
Tucson black metal act conjuring bleak, lo-fi atmospheres with a raw and ritualistic approach that emphasizes darkness over production polish.
San Jose grind/death unit formed in 2025, delivering short bursts of violent, noise-soaked brutality in the tradition of West Coast goregrind and power violence.
Punishing Death Metal / Hardcore out of Texas.
Port Charlotte death metal project with a morbid sensibility, grinding out riff-heavy material from Florida's lesser-known underground with a stripped, direct approach.
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