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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Evidence (2023)
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Madison, Wisconsin's Tragic Death have been crafting melodic black metal with a cold, atmospheric intensity since 2012, drawing on Scandinavian influences while maintaining a distinctly North American bleakness.
Newly formed in Saint Joseph, Missouri in 2026, Tragic Fate bring a metalcore approach to a city that tends to fly under the radar of the genre's circuit, channeling emotional intensity into heavy, structured arrangements.
Intense Heavy Metal / Hard Rock out of Texas.
Bath, New York progressive metal project Tragic Heights formed in 2024, bringing an ambitious and compositionally complex approach to the genre from a small upstate New York community.
Hobbs, New Mexico's Trail of the Blood Stained God have been deploying blackened death metal from the high desert since 2011, fusing the frost-bitten savagery of black metal with the blunt-force trauma of death metal.
Frederick, Maryland's Trail of Wreckage push doom metal into experimental territory since forming in 2020, building on the genre's foundational heaviness while introducing unconventional textures and structures.
St. Cloud, Minnesota's Trailboss cut against the grain of their northern climate with sun-baked southern and stoner metal, hauling thick, fuzz-drenched riffs out of the upper Midwest since 2013.
North Kingstown, Rhode Island's Train of Thought arrived in 2022 with groove metal's trademark locked-in, syncopated heaviness, carving out a niche in the small but active New England extreme music scene.
Rochester, New York's Trainwreck have been blending groove metal's rhythmic crush with metalcore's intensity since 2006, building a sound that hits hard on both fronts in one of upstate New York's more active metal communities.
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