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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Madness (2017)
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Heavy metal act serving up traditional metal sensibilities — muscular riffs, commanding vocals, and a straight-ahead drive that keeps the spirit of classic metal firmly alive.
Miami power metal band delivering soaring vocals, galloping rhythms, and epic song structures informed by both European metal traditions and Florida's aggressive heavy metal scene.
Sacramento doom and stoner metal duo immersed in thick, hazy riffs and slow-burning grooves that pull listeners deep into a hypnotic, smoke-filled sonic fog.
Lebanon, Oregon heavy metal act rooted in classic metal conviction, wielding chunky riffs and a blue-collar intensity that echoes the Pacific Northwest's underground metal community.
La Mesa, California death-thrash band fusing the technical brutality of death metal with thrash's street-level aggression, resulting in a relentless and uncompromising assault.
Queens, New York black and doom metal act weaving frigid, dissonant riffs together with suffocating, slow-moving passages in a sound that's as bleak as it is hypnotically heavy.
Miami speed metal outfit channeling the frantic, high-octane energy of the genre's '80s heyday — fast picking, screaming leads, and an unrelenting drive from start to finish.
'The Luster of Pandemonium' (2005) is considered one of the most unrelentingly technical death metal albums ever recorded. Criminally obscure, the band dissolved shortly after.
Long-running atmospheric black metal project steeped in occult mysticism and ritualistic darkness, crafting dense, hypnotic compositions that blur the line between music and ceremony.
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