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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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New Jersey's Conciner carve out a death-thrash hybrid that leans into technical riff work and relentless forward momentum, a tightly wound machine of precision and aggression.
Barre, Massachusetts's Conclave deal in slow, oppressive sludge and stoner metal, piling on massive riffs and hazy low-end weight to create music that feels genuinely immovable.
Tullytown, Pennsylvania's Concoct stir together death metal's extremity and groove metal's rhythmic swagger, concocting a sound built for pit-ready heaviness.
Baltimore's Concrete Prophet build elaborate progressive metal soundscapes that balance technical ambition with emotional weight, reflecting the city's reputation for serious, thoughtful heavy music.
Minnesota's Concussed deliver grinding, blunt-force death metal that doesn't bother with subtlety — just direct, skull-rattling aggression in service of pure heaviness.
New Philadelphia, Ohio's Concussion batter listeners with heads-down thrash metal, relying on precise riff mechanics and relentless tempo to inflict maximum sonic damage.
Brooklyn's Concussion fuse crossover thrash and classic thrash metal into a punk-charged, riff-first attack that reflects New York's long tradition of no-bullshit extreme music.
Chicago's Concussion grind through hard-hitting thrash metal with Midwestern directness, focusing on tight riff construction and punishing tempos over any kind of stylistic detour.
Jacksonville, Florida's Concussion bring death metal's diseased energy to the Sunshine State, channeling Florida's storied extreme metal tradition into savage, no-frills brutality.
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