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Instinctual Self-Slaughter (2025)
Featured instrumental metal Album
A Clear and Present Rager
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Heard It On The X (From "RAW: That Little Ol' Band From Texas" Original Soundtrack) (2022)
04/11 @ Lucas Oil Live at WinStar World Casino, Thackerville
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Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape
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Los Angeles death metal project active around 2015, brief and unsigned, leaving no recorded output before splitting up.
San Antonio black/death metal band formed in 2025, a newly emerged Texas act fusing the corrosive rawness of black metal with death metal ferocity.
Brutal death metal band active since 2012, named after a Defeated Sanity track, dealing in gore-soaked extremity and relentless violence.
Michigan death/grind unit from White Lake, active briefly around 2022 before splitting up, channeling scatological grindcore aggression into short, brutal bursts.
Charlotte, North Carolina melodic death/groove metal band, blending the hook-driven aggression of melodic death metal with the stomping weight of groove.
Fort Myers, Florida death metal act that formed around 2009 and later split up, operating without a label.
Rhode Island band that began as melodic technical death metal before pivoting to experimental/progressive rock, ultimately disavowing their early extreme metal work amid constant lineup changes.
Bakersfield, California slam/brutal death metal band formed in 2024, a new entry in the West Coast extreme metal underground.
Salt Lake City's Call of Madness fuse melodic death and traditional heavy metal into a dynamic sound that has been active since 2016, balancing brutality with accessible hooks.
A short-lived Philadelphia death/doom project, Call of Pripyat channeled sorrow, bleakness, and apocalyptic dread into crushing compositions before splitting up in 2022.
Melodic death metal outfit from Coachella, California, Call Upon Your Gods have been honing their hook-laden yet aggressive approach since forming in 2017.
A death/thrash act from North Carolina, Calling Hour formed in 2007 and operated as an independent underground project.
Speed-obsessed, blasphemous death metal inspired by Angelcorpse, Krisiun, and Hate Eternal. Releases on Lavadome Productions and Iron Blood and Death Corporation.
Oklahoma City progressive death metal solo project active since 2015, weaving technical riffwork with the structural complexity that defines the genre.
California solo project by Agravain that evolved from power/melodic death metal into black, pagan, and folk metal territory, drawing on themes of despair, fantasy, and ancient legend before disbanding around 2010.
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