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People Watching (2024)
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Rituals of Power (2019)
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Phantom Divine (Shadow Empire) (2018)
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Oklahoma City band formed in 2014 that splices together thrash metal, grindcore, and doom into a chaotic and deliberately genre-defying hybrid rooted in the Oklahoma underground.
Shelby Township, Michigan death/thrash metal band formed in 2017, combining the brutality of death metal with the kinetic energy and riffing density of thrash.
Peoria, Illinois metalcore band formed in 2024, contributing to the Midwest's growing metalcore underground with a sound built on heavy breakdowns and melodic tension.
Black metal band from Salt Lake City, Utah, formed in 2019, inhabiting a city with a surprisingly active extreme metal underground with a focused black metal approach.
Wichita, Kansas stoner and doom metal band formed in 2020, combining the hazy, riff-heavy grooves of stoner rock with the slow, crushing weight of doom metal.
Technical death metal band from the Southern New Jersey/Philadelphia area with roots dating to 1994, bringing decades of experience to a genre demanding precision and brutality in equal measure.
Progressive death metal band from Reading, Pennsylvania, formed in 2025, combining the technicality and compositional scope of progressive metal with death metal's extreme foundation.
Razor-sharp Speed / Thrash / Heavy Metal out of Texas.
SubtleFeud is a heavy metal band from Columbus, Ohio, formed in 2008, playing hard-edged traditional heavy metal with a hard rock sensibility rooted in the Midwest club circuit.
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