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Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Black Metal Album
Black Blood (2022)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Compendium Diablerie: The Demo Days (2008)
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Cleveland, Ohio act spanning black metal, death metal, and thrash, drawing on all three traditions to create a raw and aggressive hybrid sound.
Toledo, Ohio band spanning death metal, deathcore, and progressive metal, combining the breakdown intensity of deathcore with the technical ambition and shifting structures of progressive death.
Cleveland, Ohio death metal band working in the American death metal underground with a straightforward and aggressive approach to the genre.
Chaos Eater is a death metal band from Canton, Ohio operating in the tradition of straightforward, crushing underground death metal. The band remains an independent act in the Ohio metal underground.
Newark, Ohio death metal act Child Sized Coffin brings a blunt, uncompromising brutality to their music, rooted in the mid-American underground scene's no-frills tradition. Their name alone signals the unrelenting darkness baked into every track.
Kent, Ohio's Chingada Carne delivers uncompromising brutal death metal with the kind of punishing low-end and guttural attack the genre demands. They operate squarely in the underground extreme metal tradition with no concession to accessibility.
Cleveland's Choke tears through crossover thrash and death metal with the abrasive energy of the Midwest underground, keeping things fast and nasty in a city with a long tradition of brutal music. Their approach is economical and aggressive, built for impact.
Cleveland's Cholera straddle the line between death metal and deathcore, bringing Midwestern grit to breakdowns and blast beats alike. Their approach is direct and punishing.
Dayton, Ohio's Chronic Demise operates in the grinding intersection of death metal and grindcore, favoring speed, blasting, and concise bursts of brutality. Their music draws from the Midwest's tradition of keeping extreme metal gritty and unpretentious.
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