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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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On The Hunt (2023)
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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho death metal project whose name uses restaurant slang ('86' meaning to remove) applied to religious iconography. Blasphemous extremity from the Idaho panhandle.
Gloucester City, New Jersey death metal and deathcore project. South Jersey aggression distilled to a body count.
Fredericksburg, Virginia thrash metal project named after the nine worlds of Norse cosmology. Viking-themed thrash from Virginia's historic battlefield corridor.
Punishing Grindcore from Houston.
Colorado Springs/Denver grindcore project named after an area code. Front Range blasts of fury.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin crossover thrash project. The emergency-number name promises urgent, aggressive punk-metal from Beer City.
Prairieville, Louisiana groove metal and Southern heavy rock outfit. Bayou-bred heaviness with a name as slimy and slow as the creature it references.
Indianapolis NWOTHM project named after the deepest level of Dante's Hell. Classical literature meets classic heavy metal from the Circle City.
Los Angeles grindcore project whose bracketed name suggests redacted information — classified extremity from the entertainment capital.
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