Austin art-punk/post-hardcore. Explosive live shows and ambitious, genre-defying records.

...Beneath Starless Night is a black metal project from Baltimore, Maryland, surfacing in 2024 with a two-track split release alongside Elfjada. The project's debut suggests a contemplative, atmospheric approach to black metal with titles hinting at longing and dreamlike imagery. Based in Baltimore's small but devoted underground metal scene, the project represents the next generation of East Coast black metal.

...in Agony of the Eclipsed Moon is a black metal project from Midland City, Alabama, emerging in 2020 with a single-track untitled demo. The project deals in raw, solitary black metal steeped in darkness and isolation. Little is known beyond the initial demo, placing the act firmly in the most obscure reaches of the American black metal underground.

...Under a Full Moon is a prolific doom metal project originally from Midland, Michigan, later relocating to North Carolina, with an enormous output since 2017. Across eleven releases — including four full-lengths and multiple EPs — the project has built a sprawling catalog of oppressive, ritualistic doom metal. The sheer volume and pace of output points to a singularly driven vision of unrelenting heaviness.

...with Abandon is a death metal band from Bellingham, Washington, debuting in 2024 with the three-track EP "Scheele's Green." Named after the arsenic-laced pigment, tracks like "Hopefiend" and "Cinders of Seraphim" suggest a band drawn to morbid historical curiosity alongside their brutal sonic approach. The band represents the Pacific Northwest's continued contribution to American death metal.

.50Collateral is a death metal act from Alabama that emerged in 2025 with the four-track EP "Desolation of the Last Species." The release features track titles of escalating absurdity, culminating in the unforgettably named "Being Choked to Death by a Hillbilly with Banjo Strings and This Is the Last Thing You Hear." The band deals in raw, Southern-fried brutality with a pitch-black sense of humor.

.Nema is a black metal and crust punk band from Detroit, Michigan, active since 1995 with roots in the city's hardcore scene. Across a demo, EP, and the 17-track full-length "Bring Our Curses Home" (1998), the band fused raw black metal tremolo picking with the d-beat urgency of crust punk. Their mid-90s output places them among the early American acts bridging extreme metal and punk.

.springofdrownedpanda. is a sludge metal project from Peekskill, New York, named after the cursed springs of Ranma 1/2. Active since 2009, the project's self-titled EP features five tracks of crushing sludge with absurdist titles referencing the anime's mythology. A 2021 follow-up single continued the theme, suggesting a project as devoted to its conceptual humor as to its crushing low-end.

.Tallow. is a noise rock and sludge metal project from San Francisco, California, releasing the three-track "Crack Tracks" EP in 2011. With songs like "My Baby's Gone (She Left Me for a Cult)," the project blends abrasive sludge riffing with the angular dissonance of noise rock. The release captures the grimy, confrontational energy of the Bay Area's heavy underground.