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Somewhere Better (2022)
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The Atlantic Albums (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Regicide (2025)
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Fort Madison, Iowa groove metal outfit Chupacabra takes their name from the legendary creature and brings a similarly lurking, heavy presence to the Midwest underground. Their sound is built on mid-paced groove and the kind of riff weight that makes rooms feel smaller.
Metalcore and thrash act from Imperia on the Ligurian coast, active since 2006. Chupacabras has spent nearly two decades fusing hardcore intensity with thrash metal riffing.
Folk metal band from Kherson in southern Ukraine, active since 2002. Chur has spent over two decades weaving Ukrainian folk traditions into heavy metal from the Black Sea region.
Columbus, Ohio death metal band Church keeps it appropriately grim and heavy, drawing on the Ohio underground's tradition of no-nonsense extreme metal. Their music prioritizes atmosphere and crushing heaviness in equal measure.
Black-death metal band from Denmark, active since 2008. They channel dark, ritualistic extremity through a fusion of black and death metal.
Illinois death metal outfit Church Burner deal in densely layered, churning riffs that lock into grinding, punishing grooves. Their Bandcamp output reflects a devotion to old-school brutality with a modern edge.
Death-doom-deathcore band from Perpignan near the Spanish border, France, active since 2013. They blend death metal, doom, and deathcore from the Catalan-French borderlands.
Lovecraft-inspired sludge and doom metal project formed in 2017, channeling cosmic horror through crushing sonic weight and oppressive atmospherics. Their eldritch thematic focus matches a sound designed to evoke existential dread.
Sludge, stoner, and groove metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2019. They pile heavy grooves atop sludgy foundations with a stoner metal swagger, adding to Sofia's increasingly diverse heavy music landscape.
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