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A Past Embrace (2022)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Wake up Dead (feat. Dave Mustaine) (2022)
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This is Black Stone Cherry's RSD album. The band really likes it. (2025)
11/14 @ WC Social Club, West Chicago
Featured Death Metal Album
Echoes (2025)
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Oakland's Color of Death marries melodic death metal's guitar-driven dynamism with the Bay Area's tradition of technically precise brutality, carving melody out of darkness without softening the core aggression.
Dreamy metalcore from Austin with genre-bending hooks.
Colossal Death God packs deathcore, mathcore, and metalcore into a single careening vehicle — technically demanding and relentlessly heavy, a band that seems to actively enjoy making their music difficult to predict.
Santa Fe, New Mexico's Colossal Swan Dive brings sludge metal's tortured slowness to the high desert, a project that suits the stark, wide-open landscape of northern New Mexico with unexpected precision.
Richmond, Virginia's Colossal Wreck plays death-infused thrash with the direct, no-nonsense approach typical of the Richmond scene — a city that consistently produces metal with more grit than polish.
Vicksburg, Mississippi's Colossus fuses stoner metal's heavy grooves with traditional heavy metal's riff-forward clarity, a Southern outfit that grounds cosmic heaviness in the Mississippi Delta's deep-rooted musical tradition.
Pittsburgh technical deathcore act Coltcrusher bring surgical precision to their breakdowns, fusing angular tech-death riffing with deathcore brutality that hits like a freight train. Their sound is intricate but never loses its menace.
Newport, Minnesota's Colton Schorn is a death metal solo project delivering unadorned, grim heaviness from the American Midwest. Raw and direct, the project channels old-school death metal in a personal, stripped-down format.
Milwaukee black metal act Columbarium conjure cold, atmospheric darkness from the shores of Lake Michigan. Their music is austere and ritualistic, dwelling in shadows rarely lit by the Upper Midwest sun.
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