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Philadelphia death metal stalwarts Barbarism have been operating since 2004, releasing their self-produced EP Exposure to Madness in 2008 and maintaining an independent presence in the underground for two decades.
Oakland's Barbarous is a death metal outfit that channels medieval battle, war, and gore into a sound rooted in the classic brutalist tradition of the genre.
A New Hampshire atmospheric black metal project, Barbarous Winds pursues the genre's most immersive and expansive tendencies, crafting vast, windswept soundscapes from a remote corner of the American underground.
Jersey City's Barbarus melds the melodic sweep of melodic death metal with folk metal influences, weaving themes of death, war, and honor through an approach that has been active since 2015.
Detroit's Barbed Casket is an all-instrumental sludge metal project, letting the weight and texture of the music speak without vocals since forming in 2021.
Collinsville, Illinois act Barbed Wire Sandwich occupies the convergence of slam, brutal death metal, and deathcore, bringing the genre's most physically punishing characteristics together under one deliberately confrontational name.
Named after the mystical object in Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, Baltimore's Barbelith has been exploring consciousness, astral travel, and introspection through post-black metal since 2011.
Originally rooted on Long Island and later relocating to Georgia, Barbiturate applies a dark satirical lens to avant-garde death metal, an unusual and intellectually provocative corner of the extreme underground.
An American black metal and dark ambient project whose name invokes a figure from Gnostic theology, pairing esoteric imagery with the bleak atmospheric territory shared by both genres.
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