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Outer Space (2024)
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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Dayton's Choking drag black metal orthodoxy through the Ohio rust belt, smearing it with thick sludge and corrosive atmosphere. The result is bleak, slow-burning, and confrontational.
Scranton death-doom act Choking on Offal dwell in the most suffocating end of the spectrum, fusing cavernous death metal brutality with the slow crush of doom. Expect nothing merciful.
Washington grindcore project Choking Sands tear through material with hardcore ferocity and grind economy, leaving little room for breath between blasts. Short, sharp, and relentless.
Brutal death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2020. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from the French capital.
Heavy metal band from Peine, Germany, formed in 2018. They forge classic heavy metal driven by powerful riffs and driving rhythms from the Lower Saxon plains.
Cleveland's Cholera straddle the line between death metal and deathcore, bringing Midwestern grit to breakdowns and blast beats alike. Their approach is direct and punishing.
Milwaukee's Cholernik fuse black metal darkness with progressive ambition, building elaborate compositions that shift between cold atmosphere and technical complexity. A forward-thinking act from the Wisconsin underground.
Frigid Depressive Black Metal out of Texas.
Melodic death metal band from Finland, formed in 2024. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal in the Finnish tradition.
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