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SUCKERPUNCH (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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On The Hunt (2023)
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Kansas City/Tampa death metal legends delivering some of the most ferocious war metal in American history.
Chicago thrash metal act whose 2022 single Ride It Out delivers focused, no-nonsense thrash from a city with an endless appetite for speed and aggression.
Devastating Brutal Death Metal from Houston, Texas / Beloit, Wisconsin.
Morgantown, West Virginia doom metal project with a staggering seven releases since 2024, demonstrating a creative output that borders on compulsive. Their catalog plumbs the depths of lo-fi doom with provocative titles and relentless productivity from the Mountain State.
Denver thrash metal outfit active since 2014, building a four-release catalog of ferocious speed metal. From the bluntly titled Evilgasm to the more ambitious Orchestrionic Abortion, they've grown from raw thrash into something more surgically precise without losing their edge.
Albuquerque power metal project from the New Mexico underground.
Garland, Texas power metal project whose 2020 single Pajarito — Spanish for 'little bird' — hints at Latin American influences within the power metal framework. A unique voice from the DFW Metroplex's diverse underground.
Wheatland/Le Claire thrash metal project from the Iowa underground.
Los Angeles heavy metal / nwothm project from the California underground.
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