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Featured Album
Everyone's Talking! (2025)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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Chicago act merging black metal's atmosphere with hardcore's directness and intensity into a sound that is urgent and bleak in equal measure. Their material hits hard and doesn't linger.
Denver black metal act drawing heavily on H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror mythology as lyrical and atmospheric fodder. Their sound pairs bleak, melodic black metal with genuinely unsettling thematic depth.
Washington state act cutting across black metal, heavy metal, and thrash with a sound rooted in classic metal aggression and underground spirit. Grimy, fast, and deliberately old-school in approach.
Richmond, Virginia band marrying black metal atmosphere to sludge metal's slow, crushing weight. Their sound carries the city's long tradition of heavy, experimental underground music.
New York technical death metal and black metal act delivering extreme, precision-built material with genuine underground credibility. Their sound draws on both genres' most demanding technical traditions.
San Antonio trio fusing black metal's cold menace with the suffocating weight of doom and sludge. Their music moves with deliberate malice, rooted deep in the South Texas underground.
Connecticut post-black metal project weaving folk elements into a harrowing atmospheric framework. Crawl Below balances earthy melodicism against the desolate bleakness of the black metal tradition.
Pennsylvania raw black metal project steeped in lo-fi corrosion and stripped-to-bone harshness. Creak operates in the most unmediated register of the genre, where atmosphere is built through decay.
Orange County crossover thrash act channeling the reckless energy that defined the California hardcore-meets-metal scene. Creatures keep the pit-starting spirit of classic crossover alive with fast, aggressive songs.
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