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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Danse Macabre (2022)
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Safe House (2017)
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New Jersey slam death metal outfit delivering the bone-crushing breakdowns and guttural extremity the subgenre demands. Dense, low, and relentlessly heavy, their material is built for listeners with a taste for brutality.
California brutal death metal and grindcore act producing grotesque, high-speed extremity with serious underground credentials. Unrelenting in tempo and unsparing in subject matter.
Chattanooga brutal death metal outfit delivering the dense, gore-soaked extremity the genre has long trafficked in. Their sound is straightforward in the best sense — heavy, fast, and uncompromising.
Pittsburgh progressive death metal act fusing technical guitar work with genuine compositional ambition. Their material shifts between ferocity and melody, drawing on a tradition of thinking person's extreme metal.
Texas slam death metal project wallowing in the subgenre's most extreme end — bowel-deep gutturals, grinding rhythms, and pure sonic grotesquerie. Strictly underground, strictly brutal.
Lancaster, New Mexico brutal death metal band operating out of one of the Southwest's more unlikely metal outposts. Their material delivers the gore and density the genre calls for with genuine commitment.
Green Bay, Wisconsin outfit blending progressive and technical ambition with death and thrash aggression. Their sound carries a Midwest workmanlike quality — precise, heavy, and built to last.
Reno, Nevada progressive metal act building intricate, melodic material in one of the western United States' more underrepresented heavy music markets. Their compositions favor careful arrangement over raw aggression.
Washington state act cutting across black metal, heavy metal, and thrash with a sound rooted in classic metal aggression and underground spirit. Grimy, fast, and deliberately old-school in approach.
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