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Butterflies (2025)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Sonic Brew 20th Anniversary Blend 5.99 - 5.19 (2019)
05/29 @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Champaign, Illinois death metal act Barry the Mortician has been active since 2012, indulging in the genre's most visceral traditions with themes of gore, death, and perversions.
Casper, Wyoming thrash/groove/death metal band Bartlett formed in 2025, representing a new voice in the high-plains metal underground.
San Antonio, Texas slam/brutal death metal band Basement Burial formed in 2023, delivering the subgenre's hallmark combination of pulverizing rhythms and extreme subject matter.
Oklahoma City brutal death metal and hardcore band Bashed In operated from 2021 until their breakup, releasing through Vile Tapes Records and building their sound around themes of hate and violence.
Philadelphia death/black metal band Basilysk formed in 2009 and spent over a decade exploring misanthropic and occult themes before going on hold in 2021.
Portland's Bastard Feast is a ferocious collision of sludge, death metal, grindcore, and crust, channeling social unrest and anarchic politics; they released material on Season of Mist Underground Activists.
A Colorado Springs death metal outfit, Bastard of Bethlehem has been active since 2021, building a two-piece foundation around members Lance and Dru.
Laredo, Texas death metal outfit Bastard Sons released their eight-track demo-CD Hellkiller on July 21st, 2006, representing one of the genre's deeper reaches in South Texas.
A black/death metal act from Erlanger, Kentucky active since the mid-1990s, Bastard Spawn operated in the underground as an independent act before eventually disbanding.
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