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For All To Blame (2022)
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call failed (2021)
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Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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Tucson's Lazer Throne occupy an unusual space between dungeon synth's fantasy-drenched atmospherics and atmospheric black metal's desolate intensity — an otherworldly project born in 2022 from the Arizona desert.
Virginia's Lazerwitch conjure classic heavy metal in a no-frills style, with a name that perfectly telegraphs the band's blend of occult imagery and electrified riffing.
Oxnard, California's Lazy Dogs combine speed metal's velocity with punk's snarling attitude, producing fast and feral music that belies the laidback implication of their name.
Colorado's newest atmospheric black metal entry, Lead Animal emerged in 2025 with the sweeping, nature-worn sound that the Rocky Mountain region seems to naturally produce.
Crushing Sludge Metal from San Antonio.
Los Angeles death metal act Leaf started out in ambient territory before pivoting to full brutality — a trajectory that lends their heaviness an unusual textural depth.
Knoxville's Leaking Through Limbs arrived in 2024 fusing black and death metal with a visceral intensity that marks them as one of Tennessee's more unnerving recent prospects.
Cincinnati's Leather have been delivering heavy metal stripped to its essentials since 2014 — no frills, no apologies, just the kind of riff-forward intensity that the genre was built on.
Fantasy-themed speed metal rippers forged in Houston's heavy underground. Released on Cease and Destroy Records.
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