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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Danse Macabre (2022)
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Safe House (2017)
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Cleveland death/thrash metal outfit Eradicyst grind out suffocating riffs with the blue-collar tenacity the city is known for, formed in 2019 and feeding off Ohio's thriving extreme underground.
Fairfax, California death metal project active since 2009, operating with the DIY self-sufficiency of the Bay Area underground and a lo-fi rawness that suits the stripped-down brutality of the genre.
Named after Lynch's nightmare vision, this Highland Park, Illinois sludge metal band matches its namesake's bleak surrealism with tar-thick riffs and a suffocating, lurching tempo. Chicago suburbs rarely sound this menacing.
Union City, New Jersey's Erciyes Fragment fuse orchestral bombast with melodic death metal shred, the name evoking something ancient and shard-like at the intersection of classical grandeur and modern extremity.
Los Angeles black/death metal project Ere emerged in 2020 from the city's restless underground, combining corrosive blackened tremolo with death metal's visceral physicality in a sound built on purposeful density.
Heavy Thrash / Death Metal out of Texas.
Detroit speed/thrash metal band carrying the torch of Motor City aggression — tight, fast, and uncompromising, with the kind of mechanical precision you'd expect from a city built on industry.
Columbus, Ohio thrash/speed/death metal band casting a wide net across extreme metal's most kinetic traditions, blending the brutality of death metal with the velocity of thrash and speed.
Providence death metal act drawing from New England's historically dark and storied underground, delivering straight-ahead brutality with the no-nonsense directness Rhode Island's scene is known for.
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