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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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Groove death/thrash from San Marcos. Has opened for Anthrax, The Black Dahlia Murder, Devildriver, Cattle Decapitation, and Suffocation.
Death metal band from Cadiz, Kentucky, playing straightforward brutal death metal in the American underground tradition.
Massachusetts brutal death metal act delivering the genre's hallmark density, with crushing riffs, blasting drumming, and guttural vocal extremity.
San Francisco, California three-piece brutal death metal and slam band formed in 2007, evolving from a noise project into a full-force practitioner of slam's rhythmically punishing style, with their 2011 album Orgasmica showcasing their established sound.
Houston, Texas death-doom band blending the slow, grinding heaviness of doom metal with death metal's brutality, creating a dense and oppressive sound rooted in the Texas extreme metal scene.
Brutal death metal band from Odessa, Texas, playing the genre's characteristic blend of extreme speed, guttural vocals, and punishing technical riffing.
Cleveland, Ohio death metal band working in the American death metal underground with a straightforward and aggressive approach to the genre.
Providence, Rhode Island band operating at the intersection of death metal, grindcore, and metalcore, combining aggressive blasting extremity with metalcore's rhythmic drive.
Seattle, Washington death metal band formed in 2016, specializing in fetid, old-school death metal drenched in a sense of rot and decomposition; their 2019 debut Odious Descent into Decay on 20 Buck Spin earned widespread praise in the underground.
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