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Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Luminiferous (2015)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Shame On Me (2022)
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Louisville, Kentucky outfit blending groove and thrash metal with experimental tendencies that push their sound into genuinely unpredictable territory. Their compositions carry Kentucky's heavy underground spirit while defying easy categorization.
Maywood, New Jersey act cutting across death metal, groove metal, and thrash with a sound built on rhythmic force and density. Their material hits with a blunt, physical impact.
Green Bay, Wisconsin outfit blending progressive and technical ambition with death and thrash aggression. Their sound carries a Midwest workmanlike quality — precise, heavy, and built to last.
Washington state act cutting across black metal, heavy metal, and thrash with a sound rooted in classic metal aggression and underground spirit. Grimy, fast, and deliberately old-school in approach.
Greensboro, Maryland heavy and thrash metal band delivering hard-hitting riffs with classic metal sensibility. They balance old-school aggression with tight, driving song structures.
Hudson, Massachusetts band blending power metal's melodic ambition with thrash's kinetic aggression. Crawlspace channels the dual-guitar attack and speed of the classic East Coast thrash era.
North Georgia thrash band from Dawsonville delivering speed and aggression with a raw, working-class edge. Their approach keeps the spirit of old-school thrash alive in the Southern states.
Miami death-thrash outfit combining the precision of modern death metal with the kinetic drive of classic thrash. Create a Kill brings Florida's extreme metal heritage into a punishing, forward-moving attack.
San Diego thrash metal band carrying the West Coast tradition of speed and aggression with a sharp, street-level intensity. Creature keeps the thrash flame burning in Southern California's active underground.
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