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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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Moab, Utah's Silence of the Mortuary bring death metal to one of the more geographically remote corners of the American underground, delivering the genre's morbid imagery and guttural aggression since 2017.
Cleveland's Silence the Desolated began with noise and ambient experimentation before moving into black metal, a trajectory that informs a sound where atmosphere and abrasion coexist in equal measure since 2025.
Portland, Oregon doom metal act Silence the Father draw from the city's rich history of heavy, atmospheric music, channeling slow tempos and grief-laden atmosphere into their brand of traditional doom since 2014.
Atlanta's Silence the Martyr fuse the cold, mechanized textures of industrial metal with death metal's aggression and heaviness, producing a sound that is as calculated as it is brutal since 2014.
Devastating Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore (early); Deathcore (later) from San Antonio.
Ocean Beach, California's Silence the Prince work within melodic death metal's characteristic blend of harsh extremity and melodic guitar leads, bringing San Diego's coastal scene sensibility to a genre rooted in Scandinavian influences since 2018.
St. Louis-based Silence the Witness blend the hook-driven intensity of metalcore with the heavier, more technically demanding elements of melodic death metal, drawing on both traditions to craft a dynamic and aggressive sound since 2015.
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A Boston heavy metal outfit formed in 2024, Silencio traffics in the hard rock-adjacent side of the genre — muscular riffs and a classic sensibility that nods to the NWOBHM tradition without being beholden to it.
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