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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Safe House (2017)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Salt Lake City act fusing melodic death metal sensibilities with thrash aggression and brutal death metal weight. Their sound is fast, hook-laden, and relentlessly intense.
Aurora, Illinois outfit blending doom and traditional heavy metal into crushing, atmosphere-laden compositions. Expect thick riffs and a dark, vintage heaviness.
Raleigh black metal act conjuring raw, icy darkness out of the North Carolina underground. Their music leans into the grim, lo-fi aesthetic of classic second-wave black metal.
Long Island brutal death metal band bringing medically-themed gore and grinding intensity to the New York underground. Their music is dense, fast, and unrelentingly brutal.
Green Lane, Pennsylvania thrash metal band channeling old-school aggression and tight, riff-driven energy. Their sound is rooted in the classic American thrash tradition.
Seattle thrash metal band offering sardonic attitude alongside punk-tinged riff ferocity from the Pacific Northwest. Their music keeps things fast, loose, and aggressive.
Chesterton, Indiana act blending death metal brutality with grindcore velocity and industrial-tinged aggression. Short, vicious, and unapologetically heavy.
Baltimore black metal project forging dark, atmospheric grimness out of the Maryland underground. Their sound is raw and introspective, rooted in the bleaker end of American black metal.
Iowa-based act from Griswold fusing death metal intensity with groove metal's mid-paced stomp and heaviness. Their songs hit hard with a rhythmically focused, punishing approach.
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