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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Madness (2017)
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Humble, Texas's Criminally Insane bring death/thrash aggression from the Houston suburbs with a sound built on blunt force riffing and furious tempo shifts. They are a product of the deep Texas underground that values intensity above all.
Erie, Pennsylvania's Criminally Insane deliver straight-ahead thrash metal in the blue-collar tradition of the rust-belt underground. Their music keeps it fast, simple, and aggressive without pretension.
Smithfield, North Carolina's Criminally Insane grind out groove metal with a Southern heaviness and a head-down, no-frills attitude. Their music leans into rhythm and stomp over technicality.
Syracuse, New York's Criminally Insane combine the gore and brutality of death metal with grindcore's explosive intensity in the tradition of upstate New York's extreme underground. Their music is fast, ugly, and uncompromising.
Portland, Oregon's Crimson Altar deal in traditional doom metal with a slow, crushing devotion to the genre's foundational heaviness. Their music evokes the Pacific Northwest's gray skies and introspective weight.
Bentonville, Arkansas doom metal outfit conjuring slow, heavy dirges steeped in gothic atmosphere and crushing low-end weight. Their sound evokes crumbling stone and candlelit dread.
Manassas, Virginia outfit blending the melodic grandeur of power metal with the aggression of thrash, delivering anthemic riffs and high-velocity rhythm attacks in equal measure.
New Orleans death metal act drawing on the city's murky musical underbelly, channeling raw brutality through churning riffs and guttural vocal assaults rooted in the swamp.
Los Angeles speed and thrash metal band trading in blistering tempos, razor-edged riffwork, and a relentless forward momentum deeply rooted in the California metal underground.
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