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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Enemies of Reality (Remixed & Remastered) (2003)
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Death metal act from Beacon, New York, formed in 2018, crafting dense and grim material from a small Hudson Valley city with an outsized underground metal presence.
Washington State black/death metal project active since 2016, fusing the corrosive rawness of black metal with death metal's heaviness into a bleak and uncompromising sound.
Death metal band from Olean, New York, formed in 2023, bringing a no-nonsense approach to brutality from a small upstate city with deep blue-collar roots.
Springfield, Missouri death metal act formed in 2023, adding to the Midwest's growing extreme metal underground with straightforward, punishing material.
Brutal death metal band from Cocoa Beach, Florida, formed in 2021, delivering the kind of dense, down-tuned carnage that fits squarely in Florida's long tradition of extreme metal extremity.
Death metal band from Lyons, Kansas, formed in 2020, carving out heavy, unrelenting material from a rural Great Plains setting far from the usual metal centers.
Fort Lauderdale death metal stalwarts with roots going back to 2002, part of the fertile South Florida scene that has produced some of the most punishing extremity in American metal history.
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin death/doom outfit formed in 2002, blending the suffocating weight of doom metal with death metal's savagery for a sound that lumbers and crushes in equal measure.
Los Angeles death metal act with a history stretching back to 2002, operating in a city with a dense extreme metal underground and bringing L.A.'s hard-edged darkness to the genre.
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