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TX · 2017–present · active
Prolific one-man project with over fifteen full-lengths since 2013. Unpredictable, genre-bending compositions blending doom, prog, and symphonic elements.
Portland, OR · 2013–present · active
Portland, Oregon stoner and doom metal outfit Cull move at a heavy, methodical pace, building oppressive walls of fuzz that carry the Pacific Northwest's heavy tradition. Their music is slow, deliberate, and saturated with low-end weight.
Phoenix, AZ · 2017–present · active
Phoenix, Arizona doom/sludge outfit Culldron cook up thick, sweltering metal that mirrors the scorching heat of the Sonoran Desert. Their heavy, low-tuned sound drags and churns with relentless desert oppressiveness.
Oakland, CA · 2003–present · active
Oakland, California's Culper Ring blend the drone metal's meditative heaviness with unusual folk metal textures, creating patient, long-form music with a pastoral and ritualistic quality. Named for the Revolutionary War spy ring, their sound is layered with subtle historical intrigue.
Seattle, WA · 2009–present · active
Seattle, Washington heavy metal band Culprit were an early 1980s act who released their debut record on Shrapnel Records, contributing to the Pacific Northwest's early metal scene with polished, radio-ready heavy metal. Their 1983 debut "Guilty as Charged" remains a cult document of American traditional metal.
Nashville, TN · 2023–present · active
Nashville, Tennessee deathcore outfit Cult Breather bring punishing breakdowns and brutal death metal riffing to the Southern underground. Their sound is dense, technical, and relentlessly heavy.
New York City, NY · 2024–present · active
New York City's Cult Dialect carves out a gritty crossroads between death metal, hardcore, and thrash, channeling the borough's street-level aggression into a blunt, punishing hybrid sound. Their approach owes as much to the NYHC tradition of blunt-force riffing as it does to the death and thrash scenes that grew up alongside it.
San Jose, CA · 2018–present · active
San Jose's Cult Graves traffick in barbaric black/death metal that draws equally from old Deicide's surgical brutality and Proclamation's war-metal chaos. Formed in 2018 and signed to Transylvanian Recordings, their 2020 full-length Strange Customs established them as one of the Bay Area underground's most uncompromising voices.
Chicago, IL · 2000–present · active
Formed in Chicago in 1999 by C. Immortum and W. Obscurum, Cult of Daath conjure a primal, misanthropic black metal rooted in the raw primitivism of Hellhammer, early Beherit, and old Mayhem. Their catalog, released through Nuclear War Now! Productions, is a stripped-down devotion to first-wave ferocity and ritual nihilism.

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