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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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Huntington Beach extreme metal collective fusing black metal, death metal, grindcore, and sludge into a chaotic, genre-defying hybrid that resists easy categorization.
Denver instrumental progressive metal trio driven by complex guitar riffs, intricate rhythms, and theatrical melodic arcs with a cinematic approach to heavy music.
Visalia, California melodic death metal band blending metalcore song structures with the melodic riffing and aggressive vocal delivery of the Scandinavian melodic death metal tradition.
Corvallis, Oregon funeral doom sextet merging the glacial tempos of funeral doom with black metal's atmospheric coldness and a narrative arc around cycles of death and acceptance.
Severn, Maryland one-man heavy/speed/thrash metal project delivering tightly wound riffs and driving rhythms rooted in the classic metal tradition.
New Jersey atmospheric black metal project featuring layered guitars, synth, and harsh vocals in the tradition of American depressive and atmospheric black metal.
Sacramento metalcore band combining catchy melodic hooks with brutal, heavy riffing rooted in mid-2000s metalcore.
Denver death metal/grindcore veterans since 1997, inventors of the 'Southwest Doom Violence' sound fusing grindcore blasting with sludge-infused doom passages and crust punk abrasion.
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