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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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Las Vegas progressive death/thrash act formed in 2017, weaving together technical complexity, thrashy aggression, and death metal weight into an ambitious and ever-shifting sound.
Bay Area death metal outfit active since 2004, forged in the same Northern California scene that gave birth to thrash and carrying on its legacy with brutal, technically informed aggression.
Ontario, California death metal band formed in 2018, bringing Inland Empire grit to the genre with a blunt, punishing approach rooted in the classic death metal tradition.
Brutal Technical / Experimental Death Metal from Modesto, California (early); New Braunfels, Texas (later).
New Jersey death metal act formed in 2016, known for a prolific output of cavernous, riff-dense material that draws from the most primitive and war-obsessed currents of the genre.
Cincinnati melodic death metal act formed in 2015, balancing hook-driven melody and harsh aggression in the tradition of Scandinavian melodeath with an unmistakably American edge.
Buffalo melodic death metal band active since 2012, blending the snarl and weight of death metal with melodic sensibility from a Great Lakes city with a fierce and underappreciated metal underground.
Houston thrash/doom/death metal crossover act formed in 2018, drawing from three distinct traditions of extremity to craft a dense, shifting sound rooted in the Texas underground.
Austin death metal outfit Sigil have been grinding out punishing, riff-forward heaviness since 2015, drawing on the city's underground tradition of brutal, no-frills extremity.
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