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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Grindcore Album
Head Cage (2018)
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Featured Power Metal Album
The Second Coming (1988)
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New Orleans doom and drone metal project formed in 2020, evolving from pure ambient drone into heavy, atmosphere-laden doom that carries the weight and humidity of the city itself.
Houston thrash/doom/death metal crossover act formed in 2018, drawing from three distinct traditions of extremity to craft a dense, shifting sound rooted in the Texas underground.
San Diego blackened sludge metal band formed in 2023, fusing black metal's corrosive malice with sludge's thick, punishing low-end into a suffocating and visceral sound.
Austin death metal outfit Sigil have been grinding out punishing, riff-forward heaviness since 2015, drawing on the city's underground tradition of brutal, no-frills extremity.
Formed in 2024, Sigil of Despair blend the gut-punch rhythmic breakdowns of deathcore with the visceral brutality of straight death metal, a newer act pushing aggression to its limit.
Independence, Kansas outfit Sigil Wound carve an unusual intersection between the cold fury of black metal and the fractured time signatures of mathcore, producing dissonant, technically demanding compositions since 2020.
New York doom metal act Sigils have cultivated a slow, oppressive heaviness since 2013, leaning into the genre's tradition of crushing tempos and bleak atmosphere.
Los Angeles-based Siglos fuse the mechanical pulse of industrial metal with thick groove-oriented riffing, a combination that gives their sound an abrasive, rhythmically locked character since their 2022 formation.
Agawam, Massachusetts black metal act Sign of the Goat have maintained a raw, orthodox approach to the genre since 2004, channeling the cold aggression and satanic iconography that define the underground tradition.
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