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Richmond, VA · 2016–present · active
Richmond, Virginia's Pyrrhic Salvation bring a technical death metal approach to the city's thriving extreme scene, building intricate, mechanically precise compositions that prioritize compositional complexity and surgical riff construction over brute-force simplicity since 2016.
Brooklyn, New York City, NY · 2010–present · active
Brooklyn's Pyrrhon are among the most challenging voices in experimental death metal, dismantling the genre's conventions through dissonant, writhing song structures informed by noise, free jazz, and avant-garde sensibilities that have made them a cult fixture since 2010.
Johnson City, TN · 2024–present · active
A Long Beach, California death metal act formed in 2024, Pythagoras enters the scene with the raw aggression of the state's longstanding underground tradition, channeling direct and punishing death metal rooted in the Southern California heavy music community.
Toledo, OH · 2019–present · active
Toledo, Ohio's Pythian stake their claim in the slow and suffocating territory where sludge, doom, and post-metal converge, crafting ponderous, emotionally weighted compositions that reflect the decay and resilience of their Great Lakes rust-belt surroundings since 2019.
Brooklyn, New York City, NY · 2017–present · active
A Brooklyn, New York project that bends psychedelic doom into experimental territory, Python draws on the city's eclectic underground to produce hazy, hallucinatory heaviness that drifts far from conventional song structure into something genuinely strange and immersive.
Rock Hill, NY · 2017–present · active
Rock Hill, New York's Python carry the torch of no-frills thrash metal, delivering the genre's classic hallmarks — rapid-fire riffing, aggressive delivery, and a raw attack — from the Hudson Valley's underground metal community since forming in 2017.
ND · 2021–present · active
A funeral doom metal project hailing from North Dakota, Pythonissam emerged in 2021 with the genre's characteristic geological patience, stretching grief and desolation across enormous sonic expanses in a state where isolation and emptiness translate naturally into the form.
Floral Park, NY · 2023–present · active
Floral Park, New York's Pytt are a death metal act formed in 2023, bringing the underground aggression of the greater New York metropolitan area to bear through a sound rooted in the genre's foundational brutality and uncompromising intensity.
San Francisco, CA · 2012–present · active
San Francisco's Pyxis have been operating in the Bay Area black metal underground since 2012, crafting cold and atmospheric material that draws on the region's distinctive strain of introspective, often dissonant black metal with a distinctly West Coast character.

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