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SERPENT (2025)
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Hymns From The Apocrypha (2023)
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New York City heavy metal project with seven releases since 2015. Their eclectic catalog — spanning an Afghanistan EP and INDUSTRIAL LANGUAGE — pushes NWOTHM boundaries with geopolitical and linguistic themes from the world's cultural capital.
New York funeral doom project with two releases since 2007. Displaced and Uncharted and the earlier Obelisk demo deliver glacially paced heaviness — funeral doom at its most patient and punishing.
New York City melodic death metal act delivering hook-laden aggression from the five boroughs, blending Scandinavian melodeath influence with NYC's relentless energy.
New York black metal project wrapping melancholic themes in tremolo-picked atmospherics, contributing to the state's vast and varied extreme metal landscape.
Yonkers black metal band from New York City's northern border, channeling the decay and transformation of the fall season into atmospheric extremity.
Rochester/New York City NWOTHM project whose 2019 debut Rise delivers triumphant traditional metal named after the mythical island of Arthurian legend. Classic heavy metal reaching for paradise.
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