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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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Omaha brutal death metal outfit active since 2018, representing the Midwest underground with dense, punishing riffwork and guttural extremity delivered with workmanlike intensity.
Seattle death metal act formed in 2010, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's rich underground scene to deliver straightforward, riff-driven extremity with consistent dedication to the genre's core values.
Hartford death metal band formed in 2019, channeling the bleak, industrial edge of Connecticut's former manufacturing centers into dense, punishing death metal.
Toledo death metal act delivering dense, grinding brutality that thrives in the industrial Midwest, with a straight-ahead approach to death metal's heaviest and most unrelenting characteristics.
Denver brutal death and grindcore band delivering unrelenting extremity at high altitude, blending the guttural density of brutal death metal with grindcore's short, savage bursts of violence and noise.
Tallahassee death-thrash act forged in Florida's fertile extreme metal soil, combining the Sunshine State's legacy of swampy, technical death metal with thrash's aggressive picking and riff-first songwriting.
Northwest Indiana death metal outfit formed in 2025, dealing in raw, putrid extremity rooted in the old-school tradition of flesh and decay.
Houston outfit threading progressive and thrash sensibilities through death metal since 2012, known for technically ambitious arrangements and sharp, aggressive riffing.
Chicago brutal death and slam practitioners delivering pulverizing low-tuned slams and guttural extremity since 2020, firmly planted in the genre's most punishing corner.
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