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Mount Pleasant, Michigan's Cloud Rat are one of the most restless and vital grindcore bands in the US, folding black metal, doom, shoegaze, and hardcore punk into their relentlessly political and emotionally raw attack. Signed to Artoffact Records, the trio have spent over a decade releasing a staggering volume of splits, EPs, and full-lengths that refuse easy categorization.
Progressive power metal act from İzmir on the Aegean coast, formed in 2018. Cloud Theory delivers technically ambitious metal from Turkey's third-largest city.
A solo metal project out of Walnut Creek, California, Cloudbeast combines death metal's brutality with progressive and doom-influenced textures. Their demos suggest a project constantly in motion, willing to pull from thrash and darkness equally.
Progressive melodic death metal band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2019. They blend progressive complexity with melodic death metal's harmonies and aggression.
Heavy metal band from Wetzlar, Germany, active since 2014. They deliver classic heavy metal with powerful riffs and anthemic energy from the Lahn Valley of Hesse.
Cincinnati's Clouded merge grindcore's speed with sludge metal's suffocating weight, drawing from a web of overlapping Ohio underground projects. Their early releases, including a 2016 split with Ethicist, showcase a band comfortable in filth.
Cloudkicker is the solo project of Columbus, Ohio-based guitarist Ben Sharp, a commercial airline pilot who has released instrumental post-metal and djent music under that alias since 2007. Sharp composes, records, and engineers everything himself, and has distributed all releases as pay-what-you-want downloads under Creative Commons licensing, amassing an unusually large following for a DIY studio project. His breakthrough album Beacons arrived in 2010, and a short touring run in 2014 with Intronaut as a backing band marked his only live performances.
Swedish black metal project launched in 2024, channeling atmospheric darkness through raw, uncompromising sonic visions. Their approach draws from the primal foundations of the genre's underground traditions.
Doom metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2016. They craft slow, crushing doom steeped in dark dementia from the Loire-Atlantique.
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