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Los Angeles avant-garde black metal duo formed in 2017, notable for replacing conventional guitar with grand piano as the primary instrument alongside drums and shrieked vocals. The result is a genuinely strange, dissonant take on black metal that sounds like nothing else in the California underground.
Alexandria, Virginia thrash metal band active since 2012, hailing from the Washington D.C. metro area where the region's hardcore and metal scenes have long cross-pollinated. Their name invokes the workmanlike brutality of classic thrash, and their decade-plus tenure suggests a band committed to keeping the style alive in the mid-Atlantic underground.
St. Louis groove and thrash metal outfit formed in 2016, combining the mid-tempo pocket and chugging heaviness of groove metal with the kinetic velocity of thrash. Rooted in the Midwestern metal underground, they channel the working-class grit that has long defined Missouri's heavy music scene.
Raw black metal project from Osnabrück, Germany emerging in 2024. Wreedheid, a Dutch-German word for cruelty, delivers unfiltered raw black metal with a stripped-down, hostile approach.
Heavy metal band from Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal active since 2011. Wrek Age delivers classic heavy metal from the volcanic mid-Atlantic archipelago, one of Europe's most remote metal scenes.
Atmospheric sludge metal band from London, England active since 2009. Wren crafts expansive, atmospheric soundscapes anchored in sludge metal's crushing heaviness.
Death metal and grindcore band from Reading, England active since 2012. Wrench merges death metal's brutality with grindcore's short, explosive bursts from the Thames Valley.
Thrash metal and crossover band from Osnabrück, Germany formed in 2022. WrestleManiacs merges thrash metal aggression with crossover punk energy and an irreverent wrestling-themed persona.
Merrillville, Indiana death metal act formed in 2018, bringing a straight-ahead, no-frills approach to the genre from the industrial northwest corner of the state. Their Bandcamp handle — wretchedfate — suggests a lyrical preoccupation with doom and inevitability that fits squarely within the death metal tradition.
Charlotte, North Carolina melodic technical deathcore and death metal band formed in 2018, known for intricate guitar work and the kind of precision-engineered brutality that defines the technical end of the deathcore spectrum. One of the Southeast's more accomplished acts in the technically demanding hybrid of deathcore and death metal.
Silver Spring, Maryland doom metal outfit formed in 2018, drawing from the slow-moving, grief-laden tradition of the genre from the Washington D.C. suburb. Their sound favors crushing weight over speed, embracing the long-form misery that doom demands.
Dayton, Ohio black metal project formed in 2024, emerging from a Rust Belt city with a history of extreme music and channeling the primitive, cultish energy that defines the rawer end of American black metal. One of the newest acts in the file, still early in carving out their identity in the Midwest underground.
San Diego death metal and grindcore band formed in 2023, operating out of Southern California's second-largest city with a sound that fuses grindcore's hyper-compressed violence with the riff architecture of old-school death metal. A young act already tapping into the city's historically fertile underground extreme scene.
Death metal band from Orsa, Sweden active since 2018. Wretched Fate delivers old-school Swedish death metal from the small Dalarna village in the heart of Scandinavia.
Black metal band from Warrington, England formed in 2022. Wretched Malediction channels darkness and misanthropy through raw black metal from the Cheshire town.
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