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Wasteland (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Emperors and Fools (2022)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Burning Up (2022)
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Long Island brutal death metal band bringing medically-themed gore and grinding intensity to the New York underground. Their music is dense, fast, and unrelentingly brutal.
New York death metal band carving out a grimy corner of the state's long-running extreme music tradition. Their sound leans into the filth and decay that the genre does best.
New York death doom band that moves between sepulchral dirges and bursts of death metal aggression. Their songs carry real emotional weight, steeped in despair and murky heaviness.
Oswego, NY progressive death metal band that navigates complex song structures and shifting dynamics with a sure hand. Their music is both technically ambitious and genuinely heavy.
Endicott, New York brutal death metal outfit Course of Extinction deal in relentless blast-beat-driven carnage with no interest in melody or restraint. Their music exists to overwhelm, built for devotees of the most uncompromising end of the death metal spectrum.
Saugerties, New York band grinding through death metal and grindcore with short, abrasive blasts of extremity. Rooted firmly in the underground traditions of both genres, they favor speed and rawness.
New York technical death metal and black metal act delivering extreme, precision-built material with genuine underground credibility. Their sound draws on both genres' most demanding technical traditions.
Buffalo, New York death metal act drawing from the raw brutality that western New York's underground has cultivated for decades. Creator Undone hits with deliberate force and unsparing heaviness.
Criminal Element merge death metal's morbid brutality with grindcore's political ferocity from within the Washington D.C. underground. Their sound reflects the confrontational energy of the capital city's extreme music scene.
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