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Featured Album
"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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Atlanta band fusing death metal's heaviness with hardcore's confrontational energy, arriving in 2023 with a sound built around punishing breakdowns and extreme vocals.
Vancouver, WA death metal outfit formed in 2023, focusing on dense, low-end riffing and a deliberate, flesh-grinding aesthetic rooted in classic death metal ugliness.
Death metal band from Kangasniemi, Finland, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing death metal from the Finnish lake district.
Cheyenne death metal act operating out of Wyoming's sparse underground scene, delivering filth-encrusted riffs and a deliberately ugly, caveman-death sensibility since 2017.
Heavy metal band from Kuden in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, formed in 2015. They craft straightforward, riff-driven heavy metal from the North German plains.
Chicago band combining death metal's aggression with doom's suffocating slow tempos, crafting crushing, sepulchral compositions that dwell on weight and dread.
Whittier grindcore outfit formed in 2026, blasting through short, chaotic tracks with the relentless speed and noise-worship common to Southern California's underground grind circuit.
Madison brutal death metal band with over a decade of activity, known for their pulverizing low-tuned riffs, inhuman guttural vocals, and uncompromising commitment to brutality.
Casa Grande, Arizona act bridging death metal and grindcore with disgust-fueled riffing and a splatter-obsessed aesthetic that nods to the nastier end of goregrind.
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