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A Past Embrace (2022)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Wake up Dead (feat. Dave Mustaine) (2022)
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This is Black Stone Cherry's RSD album. The band really likes it. (2025)
11/14 @ WC Social Club, West Chicago
Featured Death Metal Album
Echoes (2025)
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Splitting Septum is a sludge, thrash, and hardcore band from Indiana, formed in 2025, blending the downtuned abrasion of sludge metal with thrash aggression and hardcore's confrontational energy.
Splitwig is a brutal death metal band from Newark, Delaware, formed in 2012, delivering the dense, guttural onslaught of US brutal death metal from the Mid-Atlantic underground over more than a decade of activity.
Providence, Rhode Island outfit Sponch traffics in abrasive sludge and doom metal, blending crushing low-end riffs with noise-inflected textures since forming in 2017.
Wilmington, North Carolina's Sponsel play a hard-driving blend of heavy, power, and speed metal, channeling the high-energy urgency of the classic American metal underground since 2017.
Texas slam and brutal death metal act Spontaneous Curettage formed in 2024, delivering dense, gore-obsessed extremity rooted in the slam subgenre's tradition of pulverizing rhythms and guttural vocals.
Madison, Wisconsin's Sporadic Impulse emerged in 2024 playing slam and brutal death metal, adding another voice to the Midwest's growing extreme metal underground with gut-wrenching heaviness and percussive brutality.
Boise, Idaho's Spore play slam and brutal death metal, emerging in 2019 with a focus on the suffocating grooves and visceral extremity that define the slam subgenre.
Atlanta, Georgia stoner metal outfit Spore Lord have been cultivating heavy, fuzz-laden riffs since 2016, drawing from the psychedelic and doom-adjacent traditions of Southern stoner rock and metal.
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