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Fresh Fur (2024)
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Correction (2022)
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Kentucky Fried Killing (2008)
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Smokescreen is a progressive heavy and power metal band from Pelham Manor, New York, formed in 2025, combining soaring melodic power metal songwriting with progressive metal's structural complexity and technical ambition.
Rochester, New York sludge and stoner metal band founded in 2011, channeling down-tuned riffs and slow, crushing grooves reminiscent of the Southern sludge tradition.
New York City heavy metal and hard rock outfit formed in 2017, blending traditional metal songcraft with a gritty urban edge consistent with the NYC underground.
New York post-black metal band formed in 2014, known for orchestrating sweeping, shoegaze-infused compositions that push black metal's atmospheric qualities toward orchestral and cinematic extremes.
New York crossover thrash and hardcore band formed in 2024, channeling the raw, circle-pit energy of early thrash and punk-metal fusion into a modern register.
New York death metal and hardcore band formed in 2017, combining the guttural violence of death metal with the antagonistic energy of hardcore punk in a deliberately provocative package.
New York sludge metal band formed in 2021, building dense, feedback-laden walls of sound rooted in the slow, oppressive heaviness central to the sludge tradition.
Solemn Vision is a New York progressive/melodic death metal band formed in 2019, blending technically demanding death metal with melodic hooks and expansive song structures influenced by progressive metal.
Somber Ire is a New York depressive black metal project formed in 2018, channeling anguish and desolation through the bleak, minimalist aesthetic that defines the DSBM subgenre.
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