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The Bestiary (2025)
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Live In North America (2021)
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Emperors and Fools (2022)
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New York City progressive power metal project with eleven releases since 2015. A prolific catalog spanning albums like Chalmers Santiago and Channels demonstrates restless creative ambition, blending technical virtuosity with melodic power from the heart of Manhattan.
New York City NWOTHM project with six releases since 2009. Their EPs and singles blend classic heavy metal energy with metropolitan urgency, building a catalog of fist-pumping metal from the city that never sleeps.
Albany, New York thrash band delivering militaristic precision and speed metal fury from upstate, channeling the Empire State's underground aggression into relentless sonic assault.
Brooklyn black metal project whose 2018 debut Scavengers delivers atmospheric extremity with a Latin-inflected name meaning 'ancient art.' A contribution to New York City's ever-expanding black metal underground.
Fayetteville, New York black metal act drawing from medieval and Arthurian themes, channeling dark romanticism through tremolo-picked fury from upstate New York.
New York black metal project with seven releases since 2015. Their catalog — including a Best Of compilation and ongoing EPs — reveals a band treating black metal as an evolving artistic practice, the simple name stripping away pretension.
Rochester/Fairport, New York death metal act whose 2011 EP THE ROCK AND ROLL EP brings a tongue-in-cheek attitude to extreme music. Western New York aggression that doesn't take itself too seriously.
Utica, New York black metal act channeling the economic decay and harsh winters of upstate New York into bleak, atmospheric extremity.
Suffolk County groove metal band representing Long Island's heavy music community, delivering thick riffs and heavy grooves from New York's suburban sprawl.
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