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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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Brooklyn black metal project with a remarkable seven releases since 2024, including the full-length Albedo and cinematically titled singles. The punctuation-mark name signals a minimalist aesthetic that contrasts with their prolific creative output.
New York City grindcore project whose 2024 EP Vital Transformation delivers rapid-fire extremity from the capital of American underground music. The name — meaning elevation to divine status — applies aspirational grandeur to grindcore's most primal impulses.
Long Island thrash metal act whose 2024 EP Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State delivers verbose, ambitious thrash from the New York suburbs. The lengthy title promises complexity, and the music follows through.
Levittown, Long Island thrash metal project with four releases since 2016. Albums like Mouse and Mr Angel bring an oddball sensibility to the genre, their suburban Long Island origins fueling a distinctly off-kilter approach to thrash.
Fishkill, New York power metal project whose name evokes the desert planet from Frank Herbert's Dune. Science fiction grandeur from the Hudson Valley.
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Rochester melodic death metal project from the New York underground.
New York City doom metal project whose 2010 releases — Split in Two and The Ruins at Dusk — establish an early foundation of crushing, atmospheric heaviness. Named after the Gnostic rulers of the material world.
Rochester, New York folk metal project whose 2015 demo brings medieval revelry to Western New York. The archaic spelling signals allegiance to folk metal's celebration of pre-modern traditions.
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