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Portland, Texas's Fall works in melodic death metal, bringing the genre's interplay of aggression and melody to a small South Texas coastal town — a long way from the Gothenburg origins of the style but no less committed to it.
Charleston, West Virginia's Fall Before Your Creator brings blackened deathcore's overwhelming density to Appalachia since 2011, fusing the extremity of black and death metal with the breakdown-driven structure of deathcore into something unrelenting.
Portland, Oregon's Fall from Grace has been working the groove and thrash metal intersection since 2018, a city with a long history of heavy music providing the backdrop for riff-forward, rhythmically locked playing.
Tucson's Fall from Grace plays heavy metal with a hard rock sensibility, formed in 2018 in a desert city that has produced a surprisingly resilient metal underground despite — or perhaps because of — its remove from the coasts.
Metairie, Louisiana's Fall from Grace leans into stoner and doom metal with the low-end density and swampy atmosphere that the Gulf South does better than most, a band formed in 2018 in the shadow of New Orleans.
Detroit's Fall from Grace occupies familiar heavy metal and hard rock territory with the kind of gritty conviction you'd expect from a city that has always had a direct, unadorned relationship with loud, heavy music since 2018.
Philadelphia's Fall of Achilles formed in 2021 drawing from a wide net — groove, thrash, traditional heavy metal, and metalcore — reflecting Philly's history as a city where hardcore and metal have always bled into each other.
Dayton, Ohio's Fall of Babylon has been playing melodic death metal since 2023, adding melody and compositional ambition to the genre's core heaviness in a Rust Belt city that has quietly nurtured extreme metal for years.
Pittsburgh's Fall of Babylon takes death metal's brutality and runs it through a groove metal sensibility — heavy, locked-in, and hard-hitting in a way that suits a city whose steel-town bones have always resonated with heavy music since 2023.
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