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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Conquer (feat. Josh Mowery of Catch Your Breath) (2025)
05/21 @ 170 Russell, Melbourne
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Portland post-black metal project pushing beyond the genre's traditional borders with expansive, emotionally-charged compositions. They bring a post-rock-influenced sense of dynamics and space to an otherwise harsh sound.
Lansing doom metal act channeling the slow, mournful heaviness of the genre from the heart of Michigan's metal underground. Their approach emphasizes weight, atmosphere, and patient, deliberate song construction.
Buffalo death-doom and groove metal band pulling from multiple heavy subgenres to craft dense, lurching compositions. They sit at a bleak crossroads where different strains of heaviness collide.
Providence sludge metal outfit dragging the weight of Rhode Island's underground through thick, distorted low-end murk. Their sound is slow, oppressive, and rooted in the abrasive American sludge tradition.
Denver melodic death and power metal band blending soaring power metal ambition with the aggression of melodic death. Colorado's thriving metal scene provides fertile ground for their genre-straddling approach.
Boise death metal and hardcore crossover act bringing Pacific Northwest aggression to a genre-blurring extreme. Their sound is physically confrontational and direct, built for live punishment.
Ellsworth, Maine depressive black metal project drawing on the isolation and darkness of New England's remote north. Their music is bleak, introspective, and unrelenting in its emotional desolation.
Portland black metal act adding to Oregon's deep well of raw, atmospheric extreme metal. Their approach favors cold, desolate textures that suit the perpetually grey Pacific Northwest skies.
Denver's Cryogen deal in melodic death metal with sharp Scandinavian-inflected riffing and aggressive rhythmic drive. Their sound balances hook-laden melodies against pulverizing death metal heaviness.
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