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Everyone's Talking! (2025)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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'The Luster of Pandemonium' (2005) is considered one of the most unrelentingly technical death metal albums ever recorded. Criminally obscure, the band dissolved shortly after.
Long-running atmospheric black metal project steeped in occult mysticism and ritualistic darkness, crafting dense, hypnotic compositions that blur the line between music and ceremony.
Providence, Rhode Island black metal act rooted in the raw, misanthropic tradition of the genre — sparse production, corrosive riffs, and an unflinching embrace of the underground.
Hot Springs, Arkansas extreme metal band merging black metal atmosphere with death metal brutality and deathcore breakdowns, occupying the harshest corners of the Arkansas underground.
Minneapolis-based Cromlech straddle the boundary between death metal, thrash, and nu metal, reflecting the diverse influences of the Minnesota heavy music scene in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Arlington Heights, Illinois black/death band Cromlech traffic in cold, dissonant extremity rooted in the uncompromising traditions of underground Midwestern metal.
Northern California black/folk metal act Crone weave pagan atmosphere and acoustic textures into their blasting framework, drawing on nature worship and the wilder traditions of folk-infused extreme metal.
Sugar Hill, Georgia black metal outfit Crooked Cross deliver cold, misanthropic riffs and bleak atmosphere rooted in the rawer traditions of the Southern American underground.
Raw, furious blackened death metal. Project of JR Escalante (Nocturnal Hollow). Influenced by Mayhem, Darkthrone, and Inquisition.
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