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Everyone's Talking! (2025)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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New York's Cognitive Collapse push technical death metal into experimental territory, warping song structures and tonality into something disorienting and deeply unsettling.
Minneapolis's Cognitive Dissonance ride a thrash and grindcore collision course — tightly wound songs explode with short-fuse aggression and a political edge that has defined their underground run.
Ruthless Grindcore / Technical Death Metal from Dallas.
Glendale, California's Cogort deploy a grinding death metal assault characterized by blunt-force rhythms, guttural vocal punishment, and a compulsion to keep songs fast and mean.
Boone, North Carolina's Coils of the Serpent weave melodic black metal grandeur into a death metal foundation, producing atmospheric and serpentine compositions that balance aggression with dark, sweeping melody.
Minneapolis's Cold Colours fuse death metal's brutality with gothic metal's mournful atmosphere, producing a sound that is both punishing and laced with a melancholic, darkly romantic quality.
Durham, North Carolina's Cold Communion pair death metal aggression with doom metal's slower, grief-laden tempos, crafting music that is as emotionally desolate as it is physically crushing.
Orlando's Cold Dead Hands deal in deathcore-informed brutality, stacking heavy breakdowns and death metal riffing with a predatory aggression that has made them a force in the Florida metal scene.
Oakland's Cold Grave weave black and melodic death metal into dark, riff-driven compositions that balance Scandinavian melody with American underground rawness and Bay Area intensity.
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