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Featured Album
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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Anacortes/Oak Harbor groove metal and metalcore act from Washington's Whidbey Island area, bringing heavy music to the Pacific Northwest's coastal communities.
Tucson groove metal band delivering heavy, rhythmic punishment from the Arizona desert, bringing thick riffs and crushing grooves to the Southwest's underground.
Sacramento groove/progressive metal act blending technical ambition with heavy rhythmic drive, contributing to Northern California's versatile metal scene.
Suffolk County groove metal band representing Long Island's heavy music community, delivering thick riffs and heavy grooves from New York's suburban sprawl.
Detroit groove metal act drawing from the Motor City's industrial grit and blue-collar toughness, delivering heavy, rhythmic punishment with working-class conviction.
Fort Wayne, Indiana groove metal band delivering heavy, rhythmic punishment from Northeast Indiana, adding to the Hoosier State's productive underground metal community.
Detroit groove metal act whose 2025 album LOS ASSKICKERS ENMASCARADOS VOL 2 blends luchador culture with Motor City heaviness. The bilingual title and masked-wrestler imagery create something genuinely fun in a genre that often forgets how.
Lockwood, Montana groove metal band emerging from Big Sky Country's vast open spaces, bringing heavy riffs to one of America's least populated states.
Long Beach, California groove metal and hardcore punk outfit with fifteen releases since 2019. Their LATE series — numbered and themed — builds one of the most extensive catalogs in Southern California's heavy underground.
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