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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Still Cursed (feat. ten56.) (2024)
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Featured Power Metal Album
The Immunity Zone (2008)
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Worthington black metal project from the Ohio underground.
Black metal project that migrated from Raleigh to Columbus, Ohio. Their 2020 debut features a Greek-language title — The Forbidden Carnival — hinting at Mediterranean literary influences channeled through American black metal.
Cleveland black metal outfit channeling the Rust Belt's bleak industrial decay into frigid tremolo-picked aggression, carrying forward Northeast Ohio's deep extreme metal tradition.
Cincinnati black metal act exploring esoteric themes through tremolo-picked fury, contributing to Southwest Ohio's quietly thriving extreme metal underground.
Alliance, Ohio black metal act emerging from small-town Northeast Ohio, proving that the state's extreme metal tradition extends far beyond its major cities.
Toledo, Ohio black metal project channeling the Rust Belt's industrial decay and harsh Lake Erie winters into frigid, atmospheric extremity.
Cincinnati/Dayton, Ohio black metal project with twelve releases since 2022. An extraordinarily prolific act whose Cosmic Projections Collection and subsequent albums build an immense catalog of celestially themed black metal from the Ohio River Valley.
Kent, Ohio doom band from the college town that birthed Devo, delivering a very different kind of heavy — slow, meditative, and crushingly weighty.
Lima, Ohio black metal band channeling the rural Midwest's bleak, windswept emptiness into atmospheric darkness from small-town Northwest Ohio.
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