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Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Luminiferous (2015)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Shame On Me (2022)
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Death metal band from Huntsville, Alabama, formed in 2018, contributing to the state's growing extreme metal scene with straightforward death metal aggression.
Huntington Beach, California thrash metal band formed in 2017, rooted in the Southern California scene's tradition of high-energy, riff-driven aggression.
Philadelphia technical death metal band formed in 2021, pursuing a complex, compositionally ambitious approach to extreme metal rooted in the Philadelphia underground scene.
San Diego brutal death metal band formed in 2023, adding to Southern California's thriving extreme metal underground with punishing low-end heaviness and unrelenting aggression.
Inglewood, California death/thrash metal band formed in 2018, channeling the Southern California underground's appetite for speed and brutality through a hybrid of death and thrash influences.
Toledo, Ohio experimental and progressive death metal band formed in 2015, pushing the genre toward unconventional structures and sonic exploration while retaining death metal's core intensity.
Shelby Township, Michigan death/thrash metal band formed in 2017, combining the brutality of death metal with the kinetic energy and riffing density of thrash.
Technical death metal band from the Southern New Jersey/Philadelphia area with roots dating to 1994, bringing decades of experience to a genre demanding precision and brutality in equal measure.
Progressive death metal band from Reading, Pennsylvania, formed in 2025, combining the technicality and compositional scope of progressive metal with death metal's extreme foundation.
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