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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
We Are the Chosen (2022)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Come Dance With Me (2022)
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Cincinnati, Ohio blackened death metal band formed in 2019, fusing the ferocity of death metal with the icy atmospheric textures of black metal.
Toledo, Ohio experimental and progressive death metal band formed in 2015, pushing the genre toward unconventional structures and sonic exploration while retaining death metal's core intensity.
Subtype Zero is a death/thrash metal band from Ashtabula, Ohio, formed in 2018, combining the bone-crushing heaviness of death metal with the speed and aggression of classic thrash.
Succorbenoth is an atmospheric black/death metal band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 2012, weaving cavernous death metal heaviness together with sweeping, dissonant black metal atmosphere across their Bandcamp catalog.
Suffer is a Dayton, Ohio deathcore band formed in 1993, combining death metal brutality with the breakdowns and aggression of deathcore in the fertile Ohio heavy music underground.
Toledo, Ohio progressive death metal band formed in 2024, pursuing technically ambitious compositions that push the boundaries of conventional death metal.
Suspectum is a Cincinnati, Ohio death and groove metal outfit formed in 2024, merging the brutality of death metal with the syncopated heaviness of groove to forge a punishing and rhythmically direct sound.
Swallowed by Apathy is a progressive/melodic death metal band from Newark, Ohio, formed in 2011, merging technically ambitious arrangements with melodic hooks drawn from the Scandinavian death metal tradition.
Brutal death metal band from Columbus, Ohio, formed in 2025, applying the goregrind-adjacent brutal death aesthetic — surgical terminology in name, relentless sonic violence in practice.
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