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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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A Maine-based act weaving together death metal brutality, melodic death metal leads, and thrash aggression, B-Rex-Tron has been active since 2021 and represents the cross-genre sensibility of the contemporary underground.
Brooklyn black metal project B.C. (also known as Broken Circles) has been operating since 1996, making it one of New York City's longest-running black metal endeavors and a fixture of the city's underground scene.
One of the Boston area's earliest heavy metal bands, B.F. Raid formed in Malden around 1980 and built a reputation on the Boston club circuit by fusing traditional metal with punk urgency, progressive textures, and psychedelic groove.
Lynchburg, Virginia black metal project B.L.C. has been building a cult presence since 2013, operating as a solo or small-unit entity in the raw, underexposed tradition of the American black metal underground.
Phoenix thrash outfit B.O.S. is a newly formed entry into Arizona's metal scene, emerging in 2025 with the stripped-down aggression that defines the thrash underground's continuing grassroots revival.
Allentown, Pennsylvania's B.O.T. stepped into the thrash underground in 2023, carrying on the Lehigh Valley's working-class metal tradition with the no-frills riff-forward intensity the genre demands.
Daytona Beach heavy metal outfit B.T. Saints has been active since 2016, drawing on Florida's deep tradition of hard-hitting metal to deliver a straightforward and unapologetically earnest take on the genre.
Wilmington, North Carolina's Baag traffics in the slow-moving punishment of doom and sludge metal, a project that has been carving out a heavy, feedback-drenched presence in the Southeast underground since 2018.
South Carolina black metal act Baasthyrian was active in the early 2010s, releasing a self-titled EP and the single Womb Evacuation before going silent — a brief but uncompromising entry in the region's underground black metal history.
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