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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Three Sides of One (2022)
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Utica, New York band formed in 2013 specializing in slam and brutal death metal with deathcore elements, known for bone-crushing low-tuned riffs and guttural vocal extremity.
Supergroup pulling members from Temptress, Destroyer of Light, Monte Luna, and Scorpion Child. Debut 'The Ever-Living Fire' hit #20 on the Doom Charts.
Salt Lake City stoner metal project formed in 2023, blending amplified fuzz-rock heaviness with occasional acoustic passages to create a versatile take on the genre from the Utah underground.
Meriden, Connecticut death metal band formed in 2014, delivering straight-ahead brutality in the tradition of the Northeast's long-running and densely populated death metal underground.
Boise, Idaho band formed in 2016 playing a murky, heavy blend of sludge, stoner, and doom metal, representing one of the few heavy underground acts to emerge from the Pacific Northwest interior.
Slutgutter is a death metal band from Lincoln, Nebraska, formed in 2015, delivering abrasive and punishing extreme metal rooted in the American underground scene.
Slutlust is a Philadelphia black/speed metal outfit formed in 2014, blending the raw aggression of first-wave black metal with the stripped-down velocity of speed metal in the tradition of acts like Venom and Motörhead.
Slyphr is a Philadelphia-based groove and southern metal band formed in 2014, fusing the heavy mid-tempo churn of groove metal with southern rock sensibilities reminiscent of Pantera and Down.
Slyther is a heavy metal band from Las Vegas, Nevada, formed in 2023, drawing on classic metal traditions to craft a straightforward and hard-hitting sound in the early stages of their career.
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