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Featured Album
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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La Vergne, Tennessee heavy metal band Spyne formed in 2014, contributing to Middle Tennessee's underground metal community with a foundation in traditional heavy metal songwriting and delivery.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama doom metal band Sqquat formed in 2022, adding a heavy, slow-burning presence to the Deep South's doom and heavy underground with oppressive, low-tempo riffs.
Chicago, Illinois heavy metal outfit Squadron have been active since 2013, drawing from the classic traditions of the genre and contributing to the city's enduring heavy metal underground.
Detroit, Michigan goregrind band Squalid trace their origins back to 1985, making them one of the longer-running acts in the city's extreme underground with decades of gory, blast-driven aggression.
Raleigh, North Carolina's Squall have combined heavy and stoner metal since 2012, blending muscular riff-driven songwriting with the hazy, groove-heavy influence of the stoner rock and metal traditions.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Squalor have played death metal and grindcore since 2010, merging the brutality of both genres into a relentlessly abrasive sound rooted in the mid-Atlantic underground.
Pacifica, California sludge metal outfit Squalus formed in 2017, delivering the slow, distortion-heavy weight of sludge metal from the Bay Area coastline with a suitably murky and oppressive sonic identity.
Waterbury, Connecticut goregrind band Squashed Beef formed in 2020, embracing the genre's irreverent extremity and splatter-themed aesthetic with blasting drums and guttural, pitch-shifted vocals.
Raleigh, North Carolina's Squatch have fused thrash and sludge metal since 2010, combining the aggression of thrash with the punishing, slow-grinding heaviness of sludge to form a distinctly caustic sound.
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