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Featured Album
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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New York doom and sludge act that wallows in oppressive tempos and dense, distorted heaviness. Their sound sits at the intersection of grief and fury, slow-burning and suffocating.
Richmond, Virginia band marrying black metal atmosphere to sludge metal's slow, crushing weight. Their sound carries the city's long tradition of heavy, experimental underground music.
Atlanta doom and sludge outfit dragging Southern heaviness through thick walls of distortion and oppressive low-end. Their sound draws from both the misery of doom and the grimed-out grit of the ATL underground.
San Antonio trio fusing black metal's cold menace with the suffocating weight of doom and sludge. Their music moves with deliberate malice, rooted deep in the South Texas underground.
Baltimore duo fusing the raw filth of crust punk with sludge metal's lumbering brutality. Their sound is abrasive and uncompromising, carved out of the Chesapeake DIY underground.
Fresno doom and sludge metal band dredging up slow, corrosive heaviness from California's Central Valley underground — suffocating riffs, tortured vocals, and a deliberately punishing pace.
Los Angeles-based Crom cast an unusually wide net across doom, sludge, grind, power, and thrash, resulting in a chaotic and unpredictable strain of heavy music from the SoCal underground.
Raleigh doom/sludge duo CroMagnon wield low-tuned, prehistoric heaviness — primitive in tone but deliberate in execution, drawing on the slow-burn intensity of the Southern metal underground.
Lexington, Kentucky groove/sludge outfit Crone channel the Southern underground's taste for thick, swampy riffs and churning mid-tempo aggression into a hard-edged and visceral sound.
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