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Space Vampires VS Zombie Dinosaurs in 3-D (2011)
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House Sound Of Adonis (The Jackin' Days) Vol. 1 (2020)
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Featured Avant-Garde Metal Album
In Passing Ascension (2017)
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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.
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.
Subtlety is a death metal/grindcore outfit from Los Lunas, New Mexico, formed in 2024, delivering short blasts of brutal riffing and grinding aggression from the high desert of the Southwest.
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