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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Madness (2017)
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Salisbury, North Carolina metalcore project. The philosophical name — ars moriendi in Latin tradition — adds contemplative weight to their contribution to the Tarheel State's heavy underground.
Los Angeles thrash act bringing theatricality and aggression to the City of Angels' diverse metal landscape, standing out in a scene saturated with every subgenre imaginable.
Citrus Heights, California black metal band whose deliberately provocative name matches their raw, uncompromising approach to extreme music from Sacramento's suburban fringes.
Denver melodic death metal project. The name — a play on Artemis, goddess of the hunt — signals a predatory approach to melodeath from Colorado's thriving metal scene.
Cleveland stoner metal act riding fuzzy, groove-laden riffs through the Rust Belt, adding to Northeast Ohio's versatile heavy music scene with laid-back, smoke-heavy jams.
Columbus, Ohio death metal act whose 2013 EP Draining Your Life delivers exactly the sanguine extremity the title promises. Medical horror meets death metal from the state capital.
Portland, Oregon grindcore and thrash hybrid. The forensic-sounding name evokes crime scene imagery channeled through the Pacific Northwest's inexhaustible extreme underground.
San Antonio death metal band delivering surgical brutality from the Alamo City, contributing to South Texas's growing extreme metal presence with unrelenting aggression.
Clarksburg, West Virginia progressive metal project exploring expansive compositions from the Mountain State's Appalachian heartland, proving that ambitious metal knows no geographic limits.
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