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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Black Blood (2022)
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Compendium Diablerie: The Demo Days (2008)
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Columbus, Ohio death metal act whose 2013 EP Draining Your Life delivers exactly the sanguine extremity the title promises. Medical horror meets death metal from the state capital.
Bellville, Ohio death metal project with two releases since 2009. Inhuman and The All Seeing Eye deliver conspiratorial, war-themed death metal from rural north-central Ohio.
Cleveland death metal act unleashing brutal savagery from the shores of Lake Erie, continuing Northeast Ohio's seemingly endless pipeline of quality extreme metal.
Dayton, Ohio death metal project whose name captures the existential horror of office work. Their 2020 releases Passionless and Vacuous Gulf channel cubicle-drone despair into genuine death metal heaviness — white-collar rage set to blast beats.
Cincinnati, Ohio metalcore act whose 2010 split with Daggers creates a recursively violent pairing. Queen City aggression in its most direct form.
Lebanon, Ohio death metal band from the Cincinnati suburbs, delivering technical extremity informed by Southwest Ohio's productive underground metal community.
Mansfield, Ohio death metal project. The oxymoronic name — autumn implies change, eternal implies permanence — captures the tension at the heart of their heavy music.
A black/death metal act from Columbus, Ohio active since 2018, with minimal documentation beyond their Metal Archives entry.
Wellsville, Ohio death/thrash outfit Cabal was a side project of Killjoy of Necrophagia formed after that band's initial breakup; the name comes from Clive Barker's novella Cabal, and the band released through Red Stream, Inc.
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