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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Wake up Dead (feat. Dave Mustaine) (2022)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Baltimore, Maryland death metal band sharing a name with one of the genre's legends but forging their own identity in the mid-Atlantic underground. They carry the weight of death metal's most punishing traditions.
San Diego, California technical death metal act combining the surgical precision of the tech-death school with a commitment to genuine brutality. Their compositions reward repeated listens as the intricacies surface through the density.
Chicago, Illinois death metal band operating within the genre's most uncompromising traditions, adding their voice to the Midwest's healthy underground of extreme music. Straightforward, punishing, and unapologetic.
Chesapeake, Virginia death metal band contributing to the mid-Atlantic underground's steady output of extreme music. Their approach is grounded in the genre's core values of heaviness, speed, and unrelenting aggression.
Cincinnati, Ohio band threading together melodic death metal hooks, metalcore structure, and death metal weight into a sound that hits from multiple angles. The Midwest scene's appetite for heavy music with craft and melody is evident throughout.
Heavy Death Metal out of Texas.
Wilmington, Delaware death metal band representing one of the smaller states' contributions to the genre's underground network. Their sound sticks to the essentials of brutal, riff-heavy death metal.
Batesville, Indiana act combining death metal brutality with the groove and drawl of Southern-inflected metal, bringing something distinctly regional to the extreme end of the spectrum. The rural Midwest heaviness they carry is genuine.
Denver, Colorado band blending melodic death metal sweep with metalcore structure and death metal brutality, navigating the high-altitude scene's taste for ambitious extreme music. Their sound balances ferocity with melodic reach.
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