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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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On The Hunt (2023)
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Progressive metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 2023, building intricate, layered compositions that favor dynamic range and technical ambition over brute force.
Heavy metal band from Orange, California, formed in 2023, carrying on the traditional metal sound with direct, guitar-driven songwriting.
Atlanta-based technical death metal and mathcore band formed in 2010, combining the dissonant rhythmic complexity of math metal with the brutal precision of tech-death into a demanding, unpredictable sound.
Heavy Heavy Metal from Dallas.
Thrash metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed in 2010, operating out of one of the most storied cities in extreme metal history with a sound built on fast riffs, aggressive rhythms, and the no-frills ethos of the genre.
Progressive deathcore band from Toms River, New Jersey, formed in 2016, blending the breakdowns and vocal extremity of deathcore with the compositional ambition and dynamic shifts of progressive metal.
Blackened death metal and deathcore band from Sale Creek, Tennessee, formed in 2013, fusing the darkness of black metal with death metal aggression and the structural intensity of deathcore.
Progressive/technical death metal band from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, formed in 2015, channeling the intellectually demanding side of death metal through shifting time signatures and technically intricate arrangements.
Pittsburgh power and progressive metal band formed in 2015, drawing on the melodic ambition and technical sophistication that define the intersection of those two genres.
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