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SUCKERPUNCH (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
On The Hunt (2023)
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New York post-black metal band formed in 2014, known for orchestrating sweeping, shoegaze-infused compositions that push black metal's atmospheric qualities toward orchestral and cinematic extremes.
Metalcore band from Midland, Texas, active since 2013, operating out of the West Texas oil country with a sound rooted in aggressive riffing and melodic intensity common to the genre.
Los Angeles experimental grindcore and death metal act formed in 2016, pushing extreme metal into unpredictable territory through unconventional song structures and noise-driven abrasion.
California brutal/technical death metal band formed in 2022, taking their name from the Egyptian crocodile deity and channeling that ferocity into precisely executed, crushing extremity.
Baltimore post-black metal band formed in 2013, exploring the genre's atmospheric and introspective dimensions within the dense creative underground of Maryland's largest city.
Island Heights, New Jersey thrash and hardcore punk band formed in 2023, fusing crossover aggression with old-school punk energy in the tradition of East Coast crossover thrash.
Bellevue, Nebraska heavy/thrash metal act formed in 2023, rooted in classic thrash structures and the straightforward aggression of traditional American heavy metal.
Toledo, Ohio thrash metal band formed in 2023, delivering straight-ahead Bay Area-influenced thrash from the industrial heartland of the Midwest.
New York crossover thrash and hardcore band formed in 2024, channeling the raw, circle-pit energy of early thrash and punk-metal fusion into a modern register.
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