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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Will To Power (24-bit HD audio) (2023)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Conquer (feat. Josh Mowery of Catch Your Breath) (2025)
05/24 @ The Triffid, Newstead
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Portland, Maine doom/sludge duo known for mammoth low-tuned riffs and crushing, suffocating heaviness rooted in the cold Maine wilderness. Their music evokes the weight and desolation of the New England landscape.
Indianapolis sludge metal band building walls of crushing, feedback-drenched sound in the Midwestern underground. Their slow, punishing riffs and bleak atmosphere carry the weight of the genre's heaviest practitioners.
Savannah's Conquer/Devour bring the swampy weight of Southern metal into slow-grinding sludge territory, soaking their riffs in the oppressive heat and rot of coastal Georgia.
Los Angeles's Conqueror Worm wade through death doom and crushing sludge, layering suffocating low-end heaviness with the kind of desolate atmosphere that weighs down on the listener like a collapsing structure.
Los Angeles's Constraints of Light explore the heavier end of sludge metal, constructing dense, slow-moving walls of distortion that feel as suffocating and expansive as the city that surrounds them.
Dallas's Construction Sports are a genre-bending experiment in extremity, hurling death metal, grindcore, sludge, and power metal into chaotic collision in one of Texas's most unpredictable and adventurous heavy acts.
Miami's Consular drag doom and sludge metal through the humidity of South Florida, building slow-motion heaviness that feels waterlogged and oppressive, like the city's summer air rendered in distorted guitar.
Louisville, Kentucky doom/sludge band steeped in that city's legendary heavy music tradition, offering crushing slow tempos and feedback-soaked guitar tone. Their sound inherits the oppressive weight that has long defined Louisville's underground.
Weymouth, Massachusetts grind/sludge band colliding the explosive speed of grindcore with the oppressive, tar-thick weight of sludge metal. The collision of those two extremes results in a sound that is both manic and suffocating.
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