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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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Denver groove metal band harnessing the Mile High City's ferocious energy into driving, riff-heavy anthems that hit with the force of a Colorado avalanche.
Oklahoma City groove metal act delivering heavy, mid-tempo punishment from the heartland, bringing thick riffs and crushing rhythms to OKC's underground.
Tulsa, Oklahoma groove metal and metalcore project with nine releases since 2020. Their debut Force Majeure and subsequent output build a substantial catalog of rhythmically driven heaviness from a city not traditionally associated with the metal underground.
Memphis groove metal band named after the four-armed Mortal Kombat boss, delivering equally punishing heavy riffs from Tennessee's blues capital with a sense of humor.
Denver groove metal and hardcore project whose 2025 debut A DYING LIGHT channels punk urgency through heavy, rhythmic aggression. The all-caps title matches the intensity of their Colorado-bred metallic hardcore.
Moore, Oklahoma progressive groove metal project whose EP 5:02 and the endearingly named Laundry Demos capture a band in their formative stages. Technical ambition from the Oklahoma City suburbs.
Louisville, Kentucky groove metal project with two releases since 2017. The paradoxical name — art for those who cannot see it — captures an existential irony that matches their heavy, searching sound from the city that gave us Slint.
Leonardtown, Maryland groove metal and melodeath project whose 2015 EP It Was More Fun in Hell delivers infernal aggression with a darkly humorous title. Southern Maryland heaviness that doesn't take itself too seriously.
DeKalb, Illinois groove metal project with two EPs since 2011. Sweeter Things and Withdrawal deliver heavy, rhythmically driven music from the NIU college town, the titles hinting at addiction narratives beneath the riffs.
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