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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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We Are the Chosen (2022)
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Come Dance With Me (2022)
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Soul Realignment is a death metal band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 2026. A nascent act from Ohio's underground, they pursue the punishing sonic territory of straight-ahead death metal.
Soulless is a Cleveland, Ohio melodic death and thrash metal band with roots stretching back to 1998. One of Ohio's longer-running extreme metal acts, they combine the melodic sensibility of Swedish-influenced death metal with thrash's technical aggression.
Southern Tongues is an Ohio death metal and hardcore band formed in 2019, bringing the visceral collision of extreme metal and hardcore aggression that defined bands working the boundary between the two genres in the American underground.
Split the Abyss is a death and thrash metal band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 2014, combining the aggression of old-school death metal with the kinetic energy of thrash in the tradition of the Midwest extreme underground.
Stagnated is a Cleveland, Ohio death metal band formed in 2017, grinding out dense, brutal death metal with the technical precision and scene awareness characteristic of the Great Lakes region's extreme metal community.
Canton, Ohio act founded in 2017 that fuses death metal, thrash, and hardcore into a raw, crossover-influenced style drawing from the Midwest's tradition of no-frills extreme aggression.
New Philadelphia, Ohio act formed in 2023 that combines death metal, grindcore, and crossover thrash into a fast and abrasive style typical of the genre's more chaotic fringe.
Painesville, Ohio death/thrash metal and hardcore crossover band formed in 2024, combining the extremity of death metal and thrash with the raw, confrontational energy of hardcore punk.
Groove metal band from Uniontown, Ohio, formed in 2017, channeling the heavy, mid-paced attack of American groove metal with a name drawn from the lethal alkaloid strychnine.
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