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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Head Cage (2018)
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Featured Power Metal Album
The Second Coming (1988)
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Knoxville's Sign of the Sorcerer trade in hazy psychedelic doom and stoner metal, blending lysergic riffs with slow, heavy grooves in a style rooted in the occult and classic fuzz worship since 2019.
Georgia-based Signed in Black emerged in 2025 with a sound that crosses the technical ambition of progressive metal against the aggression of death and thrash, a young act already charting ambitious territory.
North Carolina's Signs of Decay lean into the most punishing end of the death metal spectrum, blending brutal death and grindcore in short, merciless bursts of extremity since their 2023 formation.
Atlanta's Signs of Dying pursue a single-minded approach to brutal death metal, drawing on the city's dense underground scene to deliver relentlessly dense and technically precise violence since 2021.
Allentown, Pennsylvania's Signs of Madness work the fertile overlap between power metal's anthemic drive and thrash metal's aggression, delivering high-energy performances steeped in classic American heavy metal since 2017.
Heavy Brutal Death Metal / Deathcore from Brownsville.
Minneapolis power and progressive metal act Signs of Reign craft melodic, large-scale compositions that balance soaring vocal hooks with expansive instrumental sections, drawing on the Midwest's tradition of technically ambitious heavy metal since 2017.
Wareham, Massachusetts thrash metal outfit Signs of Reign deliver the genre's classic combination of speed, aggression, and driving riff work, keeping the old-school flame burning in New England since 2017.
Pittsburgh's Signs of the Swarm are a deathcore act with deep roots in extreme metal, combining the genre's rhythmic breakdown-heavy framework with legitimately heavy death metal brutality in a city known for producing uncompromising heaviness since 2023.
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