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grieving and growing up (2022)
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Longmont, Colorado's Mourned by Flies have been delivering unrelenting death metal since 2008, earning their place in the Front Range underground through a commitment to grimy, no-compromise brutality.
Based in Kensington, Maryland, this Mourning have been writing heavy, deliberate doom metal since 2008, drawing on the genre's most crushing and melancholic traditions with the patience of a band that knows the power of restraint.
A New Jersey black/death metal act, this Mourning fuse the cold, tremolo-drenched attack of black metal with death metal's visceral heaviness, forging a harsh and unyielding sound since 2008.
Monolithic Doom Metal from Houston.
Operating out of the Omaha, Nebraska area, Mourning Veil combine the ferocity of death metal with black metal's corrosive atmosphere, forging a death/black hybrid that is both technically driven and darkly expressive.
Lansing, Michigan's Mourning Wolf have been merging melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with black metal's bleak, tremolo-driven intensity since 2013, crafting a hybrid sound rooted in the northern Midwest underground.
Fairfax, Virginia's Mournspire traffic in death/doom of the heavy and suffocating variety, blending the genre's slow, crushing tempos with death metal's brutal downtuned attack in a sound that has been taking shape since 2017.
Henderson, Illinois death metal act Mouth of Sauron combine technical brutality with relentless aggression, drawing on both the technical and brutal death metal traditions to deliver a sound that is punishing in both complexity and raw force.
Los Angeles technical deathcore act Mouth of the Serpent have been pushing the boundaries of extremity since 2010, bringing technical death metal's surgical precision to deathcore's brutal compositional architecture within the sprawling LA underground.
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