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Featured Album
Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Safe House (2017)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Raleigh, North Carolina death metal band formed in 2017, delivering straightforward, riff-driven death metal in the tradition of the genre's American roots.
Traverse City, Michigan progressive and heavy metal band formed in 2019, combining intricate compositional structures with classic metal heaviness from one of the state's smaller music markets.
Farmington, Missouri death metal band active since 2008, bringing uncompromising brutality to a part of the Midwest not typically associated with extreme metal.
Philadelphia doom and stoner metal trio active since 2001, known for their largely instrumental approach and the prominent role of the violin alongside guitar and drums, an unusual sonic identity within the genre.
Phoenix black metal outfit formed in 2022, drawing on the atmosphere of the desert Southwest to forge a sound rooted in the rawer, more atmospheric end of American black metal.
New Philadelphia, Ohio act formed in 2023 that combines death metal, grindcore, and crossover thrash into a fast and abrasive style typical of the genre's more chaotic fringe.
Arvada, Colorado black and doom metal band formed in 2011, merging the glacial heaviness of doom with the bleakness of black metal in the high-elevation atmosphere of the Front Range.
New Jersey progressive and melodic death metal band active since 2016, combining technically intricate arrangements with the melodic sensibilities of the Scandinavian-influenced wing of American death metal.
Los Angeles stoner and sludge metal act formed in 2017, stacking fuzzed-out riffs and swamp-heavy grooves against the backdrop of the Southern California heavy underground.
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