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SUCKERPUNCH (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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The Blue Nowhere (Deluxe Edition) [24-bit HD audio] (2025)
06/02 @ Boulder Theater, Boulder
Featured Sludge Metal Album
On The Hunt (2023)
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Cincinnati's Death Warmed Over deliver death metal that sounds like it clawed itself out of the Ohio River — reeking, relentless, and thoroughly unglamorous. Formed in 2021, they've wasted no time establishing a properly suffocating identity.
Boston's Deathamphetamine have been splicing death and thrash metal into a single hyperactive organism since 2004, their two-decade tenure making them one of the longer-running acts in the city's underground. The name tells you everything about the tempo.
Gainesville's Deathblender arrived in 2024 already comfortable fusing death metal's technical brutality with hardcore's confrontational snap — a natural evolution for a Florida city with deep roots in both worlds.
Phoenix's Deathbloom bring desert-baked brutality to brutal death metal, piling on punishing riffs and guttural vocals with the kind of relentless conviction that defines the Southwest's strongest extreme metal acts. Formed in 2021.
Ruthless Death Metal from Lufkin.
Richmond, Virginia's Deathcrown have been building a death metal reputation in one of the East Coast's most underrated heavy scenes since 2016 — direct, punishing, and rooted in classic death metal aesthetics without sounding derivative.
Chapel Hill's Deathevokation summon old-school death metal with a reverence for the genre's early-nineties foundations — cavernous, deliberate, and committed to the craft rather than trend-chasing. Active since 2020.
Sacramento's Deathforce split the difference between death metal's brutality and thrash's kinetic momentum, channeling the Central Valley's harder edge into tight, no-nonsense aggression. Active since 2018.
San José's Deathgrave lock death metal and grindcore into a single suffocating blast, prioritizing speed and ugliness over any sense of comfort or resolution. They've been running at maximum velocity since 2014.
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