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Butterflies (2025)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Sonic Brew 20th Anniversary Blend 5.99 - 5.19 (2019)
05/29 @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Humble, Texas death-thrash band delivering the kind of punishing riff-heavy metal that has long thrived in the Houston-area underground. Their music is aggressive, direct, and unashamedly brutal.
Clovis, California death-thrash outfit delivering high-velocity riff assaults from the Central Valley's underground scene. Their sound leans on classic genre mechanics executed with directness and conviction.
Grand Haven, Michigan's Crypt blend power metal's soaring melodic ambition with thrash metal's kinetic aggression. The result is a high-energy sound that pairs galloping rhythms with anthem-ready hooks.
Salt Lake City's Crypted Roots combine death metal's sonic aggression with thrash metal's punishing velocity, crafting music that moves fast and hits hard. Their Utah roots inform an isolation and intensity in their recordings.
Worcester, Massachusetts' Crypter weld black metal's icy atmosphere to thrash metal's relentless propulsion, producing ferocious, riff-driven songs with a distinctly Northeast edge. Their material moves with urgency and controlled menace.
Fort Wayne, Indiana's Cryptic blend black and death metal into a dense, extreme sound with roots in the American underground. Their approach draws from both genres' most severe tendencies.
Sugar Land, Texas' Cryptic carve out a niche in the Houston area underground with death/thrash that channels the aggressive, riff-forward energy of the region's long metal tradition. Their sound is fast, hot, and unforgiving.
Fish Creek, Wisconsin's Cryptic blend classic heavy metal foundations with thrash's aggressive pace, writing straight-ahead metal rooted in the genre's meat-and-potatoes tradition. Their material is energetic and unself-consciously old-school.
San Diego's Cryptic approach thrash metal from a progressive angle, building technically involved compositions that retain the genre's bite and momentum. Their material suggests a band as influenced by Watchtower as by Slayer.
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