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People Watching (2024)
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Rituals of Power (2019)
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Phantom Divine (Shadow Empire) (2018)
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San Diego death metal act formed in 2021, carving out a sound rooted in brutality and deliberate, riff-centered songwriting.
San Francisco death/grind unit grinding out compact, savage blasts where grindcore's brevity and punk fury collide with death metal's guttural weight.
Denton doom and drone project born in 2025, weaving slow, hypnotic tones into extended meditations on weight and desolation.
Furious Thrash / Heavy Metal out of Texas.
Portland black/thrash band fusing the raw ferocity of black metal with thrash's aggressive momentum, active since 2016.
Amherst grindcore outfit formed in 2025, built around short, violent bursts of noise and political or nihilistic fury in the grind tradition.
Spokane sludge and stoner metal band built on hazy, amplifier-worshipping riffs and the slow, suffocating heaviness that defines the Pacific Northwest heavy underground.
San Diego act blending metalcore's melodic structures with the groove-driven punch of death metal and down-tuned heaviness, formed in 2024.
Massachusetts melodic black metal project drawing on the atmospheric, nature-charged spirit of Pacific Northwest cascadian black metal despite its East Coast origins.
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