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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Conquer (feat. Josh Mowery of Catch Your Breath) (2025)
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Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Rochester's DarkStarr carry the torch for classic heavy metal songcraft, delivering hook-driven riffs and soaring vocals in a tradition that owes as much to the NWOBHM as to the hard rock clubs of upstate New York.
Orange County's Darksun arrived in 2023 swinging hard at the intersection of death and thrash, channeling California's long legacy of punishing speed metal into a sound that's all aggression and forward momentum.
DarkThought emerged in 2017 as an anonymous American black metal entity, crafting material steeped in misanthropic atmosphere and the genre's most unforgiving sonic traditions.
Eugene, Oregon's Darktower have cultivated a blackened sound since 2014 that feels shaped by the Pacific Northwest's dense old-growth wilderness — cold, primordial, and unhurried in its darkness.
Orange County black/thrash outfit Darkult have been fusing the violence of first-wave black metal with thrash metal's motorized aggression since 2015, keeping the cult underground tradition burning with raw ferocity.
Las Cruces, New Mexico's Darkwatch draw from thrash, doom, and classic heavy metal to build a sound as wide-open and unforgiving as the Chihuahuan Desert surrounding their home city.
California heavy/power metal act Darkwolf deal in the timeless currency of epic riffs and soaring vocal melodies, pursuing a style that prizes dramatic songwriting over trend-chasing since their 2015 formation.
Charlotte's Darkwood Voyage arrived in 2023 with a raw black metal aesthetic rooted in tape-hiss primitivity, conjuring a dense woodland menace that feels at odds with the urban sprawl of the Carolina Piedmont.
Worcester, Massachusetts black metal project Darkwor have been operating in the shadows of the New England underground since 2010, delivering unadorned black metal with the no-frills conviction of the region's DIY scene.
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