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Oh No! (2025)
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diorama (2024)
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Medium Rarities (2018)
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Elgin, Illinois thrash/groove metal band exploring themes of humanity and society through a heavy, metaphor-driven lens.
Dale City, Virginia thrash metal band active from 1993, appearing on the Eternal Rest Compilation Vol. 2 before going quiet — a short-lived slice of early-90s underground thrash.
A death/thrash act from North Carolina, Calling Hour formed in 2007 and operated as an independent underground project.
Formed in 2024 in Coventry, Rhode Island, Calling the Eternal meld groove and thrash metal with metalcore tendencies into a hard-hitting, contemporary hybrid sound.
Thrash metal band from Marysville, Washington, Calloused started in 1994 before eventually changing their name, leaving a modest footprint in the Pacific Northwest underground.
A black metal band based in Brooklyn, New York, Calvaria have been active since 2022, carving out their place in the city's underground extreme metal community.
Georgia-based black metal act Calvary are a nascent underground project still building their catalog and identity within the extreme metal underground.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania outfit blending thrash, stoner metal, and punk with a lycanthropic/Satanic thematic bent, active from 2007 until their split-up.
Whittier, California thrash metal band active since 2012, operating in the straightforward heavy underground.
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