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Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Luminiferous (2015)
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Shame On Me (2022)
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Death metal band from San Luis Obispo, California, formed in 2018, delivering straightforward brutality drawn from classic death metal influences.
Cincinnati, Ohio blackened death metal band formed in 2019, fusing the ferocity of death metal with the icy atmospheric textures of black metal.
Providence, Rhode Island project formed in 2023 operating at the intersection of funeral doom and death metal, built around glacially slow tempos, crushing heaviness, and an overwhelming sense of desolation.
Death metal band from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, formed in 2024, bringing fresh brutality to the region's nascent extreme metal underground.
Curwensville, Pennsylvania project formed in 2025 that fuses industrial doom and death metal, layering mechanized textures over slow, crushing heaviness.
New Hampshire slam and brutal death metal band formed in 2025, embracing the genre's signature down-tuned guitars, guttural vocals, and rhythmically punishing breakdowns.
Brutal death metal band from Garrett, Indiana, formed in 2013, delivering relentless, technically driven extremity within the brutal death metal tradition.
San Jose, California death/thrash metal band formed in 2014, blending the technical ferocity of Bay Area thrash with old-school death metal brutality.
Brutal death metal band from Ecorse, Michigan, formed in 2022, delivering pulverizing extremity in the vein of the Midwest's tradition of uncompromising underground brutality.
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