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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Los Angeles grindcore band active since 1996, one of the longer-running acts in the Southern California extreme underground, committed to the blast-beat intensity of the genre across their career.
California sludge metal band formed in 1996, dealing in the slow, crushing heaviness and feedback-drenched abrasion that defines the West Coast sludge tradition.
Dubuque, Iowa outfit blending doom, stoner, and groove metal into a thick, riff-driven sound since 2016, sitting at the intersection of hazy heaviness and hard-swinging momentum.
Albuquerque brutal death metal and grindcore act formed in 2020, delivering relentlessly punishing extremity rooted in the Southwest underground scene.
Snuff45 have been practicing black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 1996. Three decades of activity under their provocative, violence-referencing name make them one of Russia's longest-running anonymous black metal projects.
San Francisco band founded in 2020 that fuses brutal death metal with hardcore aggression, channeling the Bay Area's long tradition of punishing crossover extremity.
Detroit doom/death metal project formed in 2025, pairing the Motor City's industrialized heaviness with the slow, sepulchral weight of the doom-death tradition.
Traditional heavy metal band from Castro Valley, California, active since 2014, drawing on classic NWOBHM and American power metal influences with a straightforward, riff-forward approach.
Snaekes deal in death metal from Copenhagen, their deliberately archaic spelling adding a serpentine quality to their Danish capital brutality. Formed in 2024, they bring venomous intensity to the Scandinavian death metal scene.
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