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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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Enemies of Reality (Remixed & Remastered) (2003)
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Formed in 2024, Sigil of Despair blend the gut-punch rhythmic breakdowns of deathcore with the visceral brutality of straight death metal, a newer act pushing aggression to its limit.
Georgia-based Signed in Black emerged in 2025 with a sound that crosses the technical ambition of progressive metal against the aggression of death and thrash, a young act already charting ambitious territory.
North Carolina's Signs of Decay lean into the most punishing end of the death metal spectrum, blending brutal death and grindcore in short, merciless bursts of extremity since their 2023 formation.
Atlanta's Signs of Dying pursue a single-minded approach to brutal death metal, drawing on the city's dense underground scene to deliver relentlessly dense and technically precise violence since 2021.
Heavy Brutal Death Metal / Deathcore from Brownsville.
Pittsburgh's Signs of the Swarm are a deathcore act with deep roots in extreme metal, combining the genre's rhythmic breakdown-heavy framework with legitimately heavy death metal brutality in a city known for producing uncompromising heaviness since 2023.
Moab, Utah's Silence of the Mortuary bring death metal to one of the more geographically remote corners of the American underground, delivering the genre's morbid imagery and guttural aggression since 2017.
Atlanta's Silence the Martyr fuse the cold, mechanized textures of industrial metal with death metal's aggression and heaviness, producing a sound that is as calculated as it is brutal since 2014.
Devastating Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore (early); Deathcore (later) from San Antonio.
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