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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Black Blood (2022)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Compendium Diablerie: The Demo Days (2008)
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A death metal band from Columbus, Ohio, Cadavarice pursues an uncompromising old-school approach to the genre, built on crushing riffs and blunt, violent energy.
Death metal band from Canton, Ohio that formed in 2018, delivering straightforward brutality from the Ohio underground.
Ohio thrash/death metal band dealing in the aggressive overlap of thrash riffing and death metal intensity before splitting up.
Toledo death metal act delivering dense, grinding brutality that thrives in the industrial Midwest, with a straight-ahead approach to death metal's heaviest and most unrelenting characteristics.
Cincinnati's Casteless graft thrash metal's kinetic riff attack onto death metal's heavier tonal palette, producing a sound defined by high-speed picking and a raw, no-nonsense production sensibility.
Catastrophic from Akron deals in death-thrash with a gritty, Midwestern bluntness — riff-forward arrangements, low-slung grooves, and a production aesthetic that values heaviness over clarity. Their sound sits in the tradition of late-80s crossover brutality.
Cleveland's Caveman deliver unadorned death metal rooted in the early-90s American tradition — chunky riffs, blunt-force drumming, and guttural vocals that prioritize brute impact over complexity.
Cemeterum is a death metal band from Ohio steeped in the morbid, old-school tradition, favoring heavy downtuned riffing and murky production over technical showmanship, with a sound that leans toward the death-doom fringe of early death metal.
Death metal band from Grand Rapids, Ohio, delivering raw and direct death metal in the American underground tradition.
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