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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Cleveland, Ohio psychedelic doom and post-metal band formed in 2023, constructing expansive, atmosphere-heavy arrangements that move between meditative drone and crushing heaviness.
Santa Paula, California band formed in 2019 that merges the aggression of death metal with metalcore structure, delivering a hard-hitting sound from the Ventura County underground.
Slowburn deliver heavy metal from Madrid, channeling the slow-building intensity their name describes through powerful compositions. Formed in 2020, they bring gradually intensifying metal to the Spanish capital.
Slowenya channel sludge and doom metal from Turku, building heavy, deliberate compositions from southwestern Finland. Formed in 2021, they bring Slovenian-named slowness to the Finnish doom/sludge scene.
Woonsocket, Rhode Island groove and thrash metal band formed in 2015, combining the propulsive mid-tempo chug of groove metal with the riff-driven aggression of classic thrash.
Boden's Slowgate have evolved from heavy/thrash metal to groove metal/metalcore from the Norrbotten garrison city since 2023. Their measured-passage name channels the deliberate pace of restricted entry into compositions of military-town intensity.
Slowjoint deliver sludge metal from southern Denmark, building tar-thick compositions with the deliberate, heavy pace their name implies. Active since 2012, they bring crushing slowness to the Syddanmark region.
Chaparral, New Mexico melodic deathcore and metalcore band formed in 2012, blending Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal guitar work with the breakdowns and dynamics of modern metalcore.
Slowmotion Downpour deliver melodic doom/death metal from Jyvaskyla, their evocative name perfectly capturing the gradual, drenching heaviness of their compositions. Active since 2011, they bring lakeland melancholy to the Finnish doom/death tradition.
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