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Outer Space (2024)
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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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Los Angeles's Choke Me operates in the brutal, compact world of grindcore, delivering short bursts of noise and aggression from the sprawling underground of Southern California. Their sound is confrontational and deliberately abrasive, cut from the genre's most extreme cloth.
Death metal and grindcore act from Rakovnik, Czech Republic, active since 2009. Their provocatively named output delivers abrasive, chaotic extremity in the Czech grind tradition.
Thrash metal band from Oxfordshire, England, formed in 2015. They deliver aggressive thrash from the English countryside.
Death-thrash metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2021. They channel a punishing blend of death metal aggression and thrash metal velocity from the Bavarian capital.
Yakima, Washington's Chokeout fuses groove metal's locking rhythms with hardcore's aggressive directness, creating a sound that is both heavy and kinetic from the Pacific Northwest's agricultural heartland. Their music is physical and combative, built for the pit.
UK black metal project formed in 2022. They craft dark, atmospheric black metal.
South Bend, Indiana's Chokesetter trades in heavy, fuzz-soaked stoner metal rooted in the Midwest underground's unpretentious approach to heaviness. Their riffs are slow and intentional, built for maximum psychedelic weight in a city not known for indulging the genre.
Chattanooga, Tennessee's Chokeslam delivers groove metal with the blunt force of a wrestling move the name invokes, channeling Southern aggression into heavy, mid-paced riffing with physical impact. Their music is built from the ground up for the live setting.
Denton sludge outfit Chokey grind out dense, suffocating riffs rooted in the Texas underground. Their sound leans into the abrasive, feedback-drenched side of the genre.
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