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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Madness (2017)
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Detroit's Embryos keep their feet planted in the blue-collar tradition of heavy metal, delivering straightforward riffs built for loud rooms and louder crowds. Formed in 2017, they carry the Motor City's grit into everything they record.
Hailing from the Inland Empire city of Fontana, this California power metal outfit blends soaring clean vocals with twin-guitar harmonies that land somewhere between classic US heavy metal and European power metal pageantry.
Tucson's Emerald draw on hard rock swagger and traditional heavy metal muscle, crafting a sound rooted in the desert Southwest's no-nonsense approach to loud guitars and driving rhythms.
New Brunswick's Emerald bring a no-frills heavy metal sensibility shaped by the dense gigging culture of the New Jersey club circuit, built on muscular riffs and direct, unadorned songwriting.
A fresh arrival from Dayton's underground, Emerald Cauldron brew classic heavy metal and power metal together with an old-school sense of drama, conjuring something that feels pulled from a different era of the Midwest scene.
Madison's Emerald Douglas trade in thick stoner riffs and slow-crawling doom, channeling the cold Wisconsin winters into music built for haze, weight, and deliberate, crushing movement.
Kansas City's Emerald Eye arrived in 2021 with a power metal vision that favors epic song structures and melodic leads over flash, drawing from the genre's most triumphant traditions without irony.
Hattiesburg's Emerald Heavy live up to their name with Southern-drenched sludge and doom that moves like storm weather rolling in off the Gulf — slow, humid, and impossible to outrun.
Indianapolis death metal outfit Emerald Lord arrived during the pandemic years and have since been quietly building a catalog of riff-forward brutality rooted in the straight-ahead Midwestern death metal tradition.
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