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Featured Album
"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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Quincy, Massachusetts atmospheric black metal act weaving cold, expansive textures into a raw black metal framework, drawing on the ambient and nature-oriented wing of the genre.
Cleveland, Ohio heavy and power metal band channeling the melodic, anthem-driven energy of classic American power metal.
Los Angeles, California band blending melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with the riff aggression of thrash, resulting in a melodically charged and technically driven sound.
Cleveland, Ohio act spanning black metal, death metal, and thrash, drawing on all three traditions to create a raw and aggressive hybrid sound.
Brutal death metal band from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, delivering the genre's characteristic combination of blast beats, guttural vocals, and heavily downtuned riffing.
Progressive metal band from Westminster, California, focused on technical musicianship and elaborate song structures characteristic of the genre.
Boston, Massachusetts power metal band channeling the genre's tradition of melodic guitar work, soaring vocals, and high-energy songwriting.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania brutal death metal act delivering the grinding heaviness, blasting percussion, and guttural extremity that define the American brutal death underground.
Toledo, Ohio band spanning death metal, deathcore, and progressive metal, combining the breakdown intensity of deathcore with the technical ambition and shifting structures of progressive death.
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