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Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Luminiferous (2015)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Shame On Me (2022)
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Denver death metal and grindcore band delivering fast, unrelenting blasts alongside chunky death metal riffs rooted in classic deathgrind brutality.
Evansville, Indiana blackened death metal band steeped in horror and occult themes, drawing influence from early Possessed, Bathory, and old Morbid Angel.
St. Louis experimental death metal and grindcore band leaning into bizarre humor and grotesque absurdity, mixing blasting grind violence with oddball genre detours.
Minneapolis melodic death metal band combining hook-driven Scandinavian-school melodicism with crushing death metal heaviness.
Seattle death metal band delivering crushing, riff-driven brutality rooted in classic death metal traditions, consistent with the Pacific Northwest's heritage of no-frills extreme metal.
The reunited Cavalera brothers, Max and Igor, channeling the primal groove metal and thrash ferocity of mid-era Sepultura into a project recalling the visceral, tribal heaviness of Arise and Chaos A.D.
Gulfport, Mississippi death-doom band conjuring Lovecraftian dread through slow, crushing riffs and deep, cavernous atmosphere drawn from occultist themes and ritualistic horror.
Founded by ex-Cattle Decapitation bassist Troy Oftedal, Cave Bastard forge a savage hybrid of death metal, sludge, and hardcore from San Diego with relentless abrasive heaviness.
Phoenix black/death/sludge project combining sludge-drenched atmosphere with raw black metal aggression, firmly situated in the underground extreme metal tradition.
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