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Memphis groove metal band named after the four-armed Mortal Kombat boss, delivering equally punishing heavy riffs from Tennessee's blues capital with a sense of humor.
Saint Paul, Minnesota black metal project whose 2016 debut The Fall of Nihil channels the collapse of meaninglessness itself — a double negative that implies the terrifying emergence of meaning. Philosophical black metal from the Twin Cities.
Seattle doom metal project whose 2017 debut Night of the Mystics invokes the Lovecraftian fish-god through ritualistic heaviness. The Pacific Northwest's perpetual grey providing the perfect atmosphere for their oceanic dread.
San Bernardino, California thrash metal veterans whose 1998 debut The Evil has Landed... channels Sam Raimi's cult horror films through late-'90s thrash. Inland Empire aggression with a sense of B-movie humor.
Black metal and industrial project that migrated from Carroll, Iowa to Omaha. Their catalog spans nearly two decades — from 2006's Beautiful Darkness to 2025's Might As Well Praise Dirt — tracing a long arc of genre-blending extremity across the Great Plains.
San Francisco's action-adventure heavy metal band, delivering tongue-in-cheek anthems inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger films with the riff-driven swagger of classic NWOBHM and a healthy dose of absurdist charm.
Mason, Michigan black metal project whose 2019 split with Pagan Moon and demo Demo II channel raw, atmospheric black metal from a small town south of Lansing. The Tolkien-derived name adds mythic weight to their pastoral Michigan setting.
Philadelphia death metal project whose 2021 EP MAMORÉ pairs German and Japanese linguistic elements with catalog-numbered releases. A deliberately unconventional approach to extreme music from the City of Brotherly Love.
Green Bay, Wisconsin death metal and progressive project with three releases since 2013. Their full-length Irkalla — named after the Babylonian underworld — channels ancient Mesopotamian mythology through technically accomplished extremity from Packerland.
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