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A Nashville psychedelic doom outfit formed in 2009 by Belmont University students, Clorange channeled Black Sabbath, Sleep, and Electric Wizard into a hazy, riff-heavy sound. They released the album Instinct in 2012 before disbanding the same year.
Dayton, Ohio's Close the Hatch have been building their atmospheric doom-post-metal sound since 2011, occupying a sonic space where Electric Wizard's psychedelic weight meets the post-metal grandeur of Neurosis. Their 2020 album Modern Witchcraft, released on Red Moth Records, stands as one of their most fully realized statements.
Melodic hardcore with passionate conviction from Abilene.
Progressive metal project from Italy, active since 2011. Closed Circle explores intricate arrangements and technical musicianship within a progressive framework.
Experimental doom-groove metal band from Middlesbrough, England, formed in 2021. They push doom and groove metal boundaries through unconventional approaches.
Melodic death/groove metal act from the small Värmland town of Hagfors, formed in 2018 and weaving melody through rhythmic heaviness. Their blend of accessibility and aggression draws from both Scandinavian melodeath and modern groove metal.
Atlanta's Clot emerged from the pandemic-era underground in 2022, channeling frustration into a grinding blend of grindcore, death metal, and powerviolence. Their debut LP Grief Tethers on Terminus Hate City Records establishes them as one of the city's most vicious new acts.
Hailing from the small western Massachusetts city of North Adams, Clot operate in the crosshairs of death metal and hardcore. Their stripped-down aggression fits naturally into the tradition of brutal New England underground bands.
Black-doom act from Kristiansand, southern Norway, formed in 2019. Cloth weaves bleak, atmospheric heaviness from the country's southern coast.
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