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Formed in Atlanta in 2020, Ruinous Crusade deliver straight-ahead death metal with the punishing heaviness you'd expect from a band whose very name implies relentless forward assault.
Nashville's Ruinous Scourge bring a no-frills death metal approach to a city better known for country, channeling raw brutality and grim atmosphere since forming in 2019.
San Marcos outfit Ruminations blend death metal ferocity with the glacial, suffocating weight of doom, crafting death-doom that leans into oppressive atmosphere and crushing tempo shifts since 2020.
Frigid Melodic Death / Black Metal from Dallas.
Los Angeles death metal act Rut take a hardcore-influenced approach — their Bandcamp handle nods to it directly — combining the blunt force of death metal with the short-fused aggression of the HC underground since 2016.
Formed in Granada Hills in 2021, Ruthven play thrash-inflected death metal with a sharp, riff-forward attack that draws from both genres without softening either's edges.
Portland, Oregon's Rökkr — named for the Norse twilight realm of shadow-gods — play melodic death metal with a dark, Scandinavian-influenced character, bringing atmospheric depth to the Pacific Northwest scene since 2021.
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