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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Three Sides of One (2022)
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Forest Lake, Minnesota's Compassion Dies blend the technical ambition of progressive metal with the aggression of thrash, crafting songs that shift between intricate riff architecture and high-velocity punishment.
Compassion Fatigue grind through a corrosive intersection of black metal, death metal, and grindcore, channeling relentless hostility into short, caustic blasts of extreme noise.
Summerville, South Carolina's Compel traffic in slow-burning sludge and stoner metal, layering distorted riffs and hazy grooves into a suffocating wall of Southern-tinged heaviness.
Detroit's Compendia bring surgical precision to their sound, fusing technical death metal complexity with the gut-punch dynamics of metalcore into music that rewards repeated close listening.
Pittsburgh grindcore unit Complete Failure wage a relentless campaign of short, ferocious songs built on blastbeats and filth-encrusted riffs, squeezing maximum carnage into minimum runtime.
Tempe, Arizona's Composer, Meet Corpse bridge death metal's brutality with deathcore's breakdown-driven dynamics, delivering technically menacing compositions steeped in visceral extremity.
Austin, Texas progressive metal outfit Composite construct elaborate, melodically rich compositions that prioritize sonic depth and shifting dynamics over straightforward aggression.
Boston's Composted drag brutal death metal and grindcore through a compost heap of filth, producing putrid, blast-driven assaults that leave little room for anything but decomposition.
Holyoke, Massachusetts one-piece Compress delivers oppressive black metal steeped in cold dissonance and suffocating density, an unrelenting solo project built for maximum atmospheric punishment.
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