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Breaking the Will of God (2020)
Featured Death/Doom Album
Death & Darkness: 2010-2012 (Remastered) (2014)
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Featured Brutal Album
Eternity Denied (2017)
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St. Louis stoner metal band Church Snakes stack fuzz-heavy riffs and loping grooves into sprawling, sun-baked jams. Their sound is rooted in the desert rock tradition but carries a distinct midwestern grit.
Devastating Black / Death Metal out of Texas.
Providence, Rhode Island band Churchburn forge a bleak convergence of black metal, doom, and sludge, delivering harrowing, slow-motion devastation across releases on Hells Headbangers and Relapse. Their sound is suffocating and deliberate, built on crushing tempos and corrosive atmosphere.
Iowa City death metal band Churchburner grind out dense, riff-forward songs rooted in the classic American death metal tradition. Their output is tight and unrelenting, favoring direct brutality over ornamentation.
Maryland Churchburner operate in the crossfire between black metal aggression and thrash metal momentum, channeling both traditions into fast, abrasive material. Their approach leans rawer than their Iowa City namesake.
Wheeling Island, West Virginia black metal project Churchburner pursue a stripped-back, atmospheric rawness that suits the isolation of their Appalachian surroundings. Their recordings carry the bleak, cold energy characteristic of American underground black metal.
Columbus, Ohio doom/sludge duo Churches Burn construct massive, slow-crawling dirges that lean heavily on feedback and minimalist songwriting. Their sound is oppressively heavy and desolate, built for endurance rather than aggression.
Thrash metal band from Częstochowa, central Poland, formed in 2019. Churchill delivers aggressive thrash from the city best known for its Jasna Góra monastery.
Death metal band from Almendralejo in Extremadura, Spain, active since 2013. They deliver crushing death metal from the Spanish interior.
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