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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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Davenport, Iowa technical death metal act delivering the precision riffing and dense song construction the genre demands. Their material reflects the Midwest's quietly strong underground death metal tradition.
Richmond, Virginia band marrying black metal atmosphere to sludge metal's slow, crushing weight. Their sound carries the city's long tradition of heavy, experimental underground music.
Green Bay, Wisconsin outfit working in the djent-adjacent groove metal space, built on polyrhythmic riffing and rhythmic precision. Their material favors low-end density and locked-in, mechanical heaviness.
Houston metalcore and progressive death metal act with real compositional range, balancing crushing heaviness against melodic and technical passages. They carry the ambition Houston's heavy music scene has cultivated for decades.
New York technical death metal and black metal act delivering extreme, precision-built material with genuine underground credibility. Their sound draws on both genres' most demanding technical traditions.
Hermitage, Pennsylvania death metal band rooted in the Western Pennsylvania tradition of uncompromising underground heaviness. Their material is direct, brutal, and concerned with little beyond effective riff delivery.
Atlanta doom and sludge outfit dragging Southern heaviness through thick walls of distortion and oppressive low-end. Their sound draws from both the misery of doom and the grimed-out grit of the ATL underground.
San Antonio trio fusing black metal's cold menace with the suffocating weight of doom and sludge. Their music moves with deliberate malice, rooted deep in the South Texas underground.
Green Bay act merging industrial metal's mechanical coldness with the brutality of death metal. Their sound is mechanized and crushing, built on rhythmic punishment and processed aggression.
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